Japan Airlines and DoCoMo plot to abolish the plane ticket
Among the uses touted for Japan cellphone colossus NTT DoCoMo's FeliCa smartcard phones is
ticketless check-in and boarding at airports. It seems that Japan Airlines has gotten giddy at the possibilities this
offers and has decided to scrap tickets altogether; not only will you shortly be able to swipe 'n' bleep your way
through the entire process for domestic flights with a FeliCa cellphone, if you're in JAL's mileage scheme you
can get a new card with an IC tag embedded, so either way the days of the paper ticket are numbered…though not
quite. They'll still be handing out boarding cards at the check-in counter "to prevent trouble on board", by which we
assume they mean fights over who gets the seats near the exit with the extra legroom.
















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Justin Ashworth @ Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM
How again is this better than an e-ticket??