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Innovations: Airport check-in: Board your flight by mobile phone

By Andrew Baxter

Published: May 14 2007 11:31 | Last updated: May 14 2007 11:31

Ubiquitous and well entrenched as mobile phones may be, some potential uses have yet to catch on in a big way. Such is the case with mobile check-in at airports.

A passenger survey at the end of last year by the International Air Transport Association (Iata) found only 2 per cent of respondents had checked in via an SMS (text message) on their mobile phones.

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