American Airlines Offering Boarding Passes on Cell Phones. And You Thought Jet Blue was Cool.

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American Airlines is currently testing emailing boarding pass barcodes to passengers who register online, which can then be brought up on a mobile phone and scanned right off of the phone’s screen at the airport.
Select cities only: currently only available at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, being rolled out at LAX and Orange County’s John Wayne airports on Nov. 17th.
Only domestic flights are supported for now. Sorry Bond.
This is great, and doesn’t seem like any more of a security risk than paper boarding passes which have already been proven easy to fake in the past.