At airports, I’ve always waited in line to get a printed boarding pass. Time for a change I guess.
Apparently I can check online and print my boarding pass as a pdf at home or even download the airline’s app and get a qr code to print the boarding pass at a kiosk inside the airport. Do I need an active internet connection at the airport to use the kiosk? I wont have internet there.
My airline explains they can send a pdf copy of the boarding pass to my email address. Is it really not a problem to print my boarding pass on regular office paper and not on cardboard airlines use?
If I download the airline’s app to get the qr code to print the boarding card at the kiosk, will the airline spam me with ads I don’t want?
Can I both print the boarding pass at home AND get the qr code to print the boarding pass at the kiosk?
Apparently there is something called ‘receive boarding pass by sms’. How does this work?
Never had an issue for as long as I’ve been using them, which is pretty much ever since they were available. I don’t even bother with paper backups anymore because if my phone dies I can just present my credit card that secured the reservation, or my ID, at a kiosk or to a gate agent and get a paper copy.
If you’ve managed to lose your wallet AND your cell while traveling, then frankly you’ve got bigger problems than whether your boarding pass was digital or not.
It’s pretty foolproof, and it’s VERY convenient. Go for it.