Alaska Airlines Adds Passbook For Boarding Passes

Alaska Airlines announced in a tweet this morning that they have added the ability to store your boarding pass in Apple's Passbook to their mobile application options.

Thanks for your patience, Passbook is here!Check the App Store for our latest iPhone App update: bit.ly/1aE3ESB.
— Alaska Airlines (@AlaskaAir) May 30, 2013

I love using Passbook to store my United boarding passes (and my Starbucks card of course) because it brings the boarding pass to the lock screen. This makes it much easier when you are boarding to just whip out your phone and bring up the boarding pass without even unlocking the phone. That way you aren't holding up the line trying to close down all of your apps to just get to your boarding pass!

Hope more airlines (**cough cough** US Airways **cough cough**) will start to add this soon....or at least for US once they integrate to AA.

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United Updates Mobile Application to Include TSA Pre Check Notification

JD reported a few days ago that on his flight up to Connecticut this weekend he had a new notification on his US Airways boarding pass which included a designation that he was eligible to go through TSA Pre Check. This follows Delta, which added this feature a few weeks ago.

When updating my phone yesterday I noticed that the United application was scheduled for an upgrade and I love the mobile application so I was curious what changes were coming up. To my surprise I saw that the update included:

-Enhanced mobile boarding pass, now showing TSA Pre Check

This is great news and will make it much easier for people to know if they will get the three beeps when they get to the security line. For me it's even more exciting because I just got approved for Global Entry and have a trip this weekend so I hope my luck will allow me to go through the Pre Check line for the first time!!!

Plus...it was also time to update to the newest edition of Angry Birds...so it was a mobile application update win! 



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