Jetstar to go mobile

BTN News
Friday, 04 September 2009
Qantas group airline Jetstar plans to deploy SMS boarding passes before the end of this year and to introduce 40 netbooks to be used at some 22 airport check-in points to bypass legacy airport wiring constraints and to cut costs.

The company's cio Stephen Tame said the problem with airport gates was “that they are generally 100 metres away from the networks. Running wired networks is quite expensive. It can cost A$10,000 to run a piece of cable down the airport channel".


Tame said the netbooks will only be required in airports where connectivity at the gate was unavailable or too expensive.


Jetstar also plans to introduce SMS-based boarding passes. Passengers will check in online or at a counter and then receive a text message with three lines of code that will be scanned at the boarding gate by staff with a hand-held reader.

Jetstar to go mobile

BTN News
Friday, 04 September 2009
Qantas group airline Jetstar plans to deploy SMS boarding passes before the end of this year and to introduce 40 netbooks to be used at some 22 airport check-in points to bypass legacy airport wiring constraints and to cut costs.

The company's cio Stephen Tame said the problem with airport gates was “that they are generally 100 metres away from the networks. Running wired networks is quite expensive. It can cost A$10,000 to run a piece of cable down the airport channel".


Tame said the netbooks will only be required in airports where connectivity at the gate was unavailable or too expensive.


Jetstar also plans to introduce SMS-based boarding passes. Passengers will check in online or at a counter and then receive a text message with three lines of code that will be scanned at the boarding gate by staff with a hand-held reader.