Mobile Trends: Finnair introduces new 2-D Barcode check-in service.

Sunday, February 15, 2009  //  0 Comments  //  Mobile Trends, SMS

While we in the U.S. are still trying to get our arms wrapped around the idea of basic SMS, mobile innovation is taking place all over the world. Here’s a great example…

Finnair is one of the most advanced airlines in the world when it comes to utilization of E-services and in particular mobile phone applications.

Finnair was the first airline in the world to enable passengers to check-in in advance for flights with a text Finnair 2D Bar Code.gifmessage. Now, Finnair is the first airline to enable passengers also to check-in with a 2D-barcode boarding card -multimedia message (MMS) from Copenhagen, Denmark.

In this new feature to the mCheck-in service, Finnair sends to it’s Finnair Plus loyalty scheme customers an MMS with a 2D-barcode boarding card. This 2D-barcode replaces the traditional paper boarding card and can be used in the shops, in security check and at the gate where personnel use their scanners to read the data.

This new feature together with the traditional intelligent SMS (iSMS) mCheck-in option has been introduced to Finnair Plus loyalty customers departing from Copenhagen, Denmark. For Finnair Plus loyalty customers the Finnair’s mCheck-in service is complimentary service in which they only pay for the reply-message or for the MMS data transfer.

BookIT : Finnair introduces new features to the mCheck-in service.