First self-service check-in kiosks. Now self-service boarding?
Continental Airlines is testing automated boarding in a turnstyle-like manner at one gate at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
A reader at the gate scans a two-dimensional barcode on passengers’ boarding passes, says airline spokeswoman Christen David.
The self-boarding gate, as Continental calls it, works with all types of Continental boarding passes, regardless if they are electronic mobile boarding passes, printed online or from a kiosk, or issued by a check-in agent.
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