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?

  • @Brkdncr
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    99 months ago

    Airlines these days are really easy to recover from digital failures. Just walk up to the desk and they will print out whatever you need.

    • @[email protected]
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      29 months ago

      Exactly, don’t worry if your phone stops working or if you lose the physical Boarding pass. Just ask nicely and they will print it out for you in case something does not work out.