Malaysia Airlines now offers iPad check-in (video)

It's getting easier and easier to enjoy in-flight entertainment on Apple's briskly moving tablet, but why wait till you get to the gate to dive in? If you're flying out of Kuala Lumpur, you can play with that 9.7-inch IPS touchscreen while you daydream of that time that watched Entrapment with your soulmate, book your flight, find departure times and even check in at dedicated kiosks. Adapting its iPhone application MHMobile for iPad use, Malaysia Airlines has installed five terminals at Kuala Lumpur Sentral so far -- where the company presently serves just 900 customers a day. See the interface in action after the break, or just download the existing app at our more coverage link if you're in search of that elusive globetrotter feeling.

[yeppsniper Posted Jun 25th 2010 12:15PM]

@tom902 lock it in a cage.

[niezam Posted Jun 25th 2010 4:27PM]

@tom902 easy, close the home button section.

[wsansewjs Posted Jun 25th 2010 12:06PM]

Those kiosks looks fun to HEADBUTT them.

[magallanes Posted Jun 25th 2010 12:06PM]

cheap solution is cheap.

[Ed T Posted Jun 25th 2010 1:33PM]

Fun to read comments from the haters and deniers. Sorry to break it to you folks who want it to die, but iPad is a runaway success. This kiosk application shows what a little creative thinking can do to solve what used to be an expensive problem requiring consultants, IT pro-fesh-uh-nuls, and some flavor of Windows server voodoo. We will see many more examples as these devices become more ubiquitous.

[Sil Posted Jun 25th 2010 4:09PM]

Wow! They only serve 900 customers a day? Wow thats a waste of money for only that few people.

[niezam Posted Jun 25th 2010 4:25PM]

iPad not officially launch in here yet, I'll steal this thing!

Good for customer for about 5-10 minutes, maybe more for newbies. Totally a waste of good device for only one app. Why don't provide other than that app, eg: Safari etc Oh yeah, probably need to jailbreak and hide the dock and several apps, just put selected app on the home screen :P

[Very Powerfull Codfish Posted Jun 25th 2010 6:00PM]

Why the hell do they cover this, and not the fact that another airline included Zune services in the built-in touch-screen systems for the passenger...!?!?

[alfredkoh Posted Jun 25th 2010 10:57PM]

Cool..

[nzer Posted Jun 26th 2010 1:00AM]

all fine and dandy but WHEN IS THE IPAD COMING TO MALAYSIA?!?!?!