The Smartphone as a ticket replacement

Whatever one thinks of them in principle, sometimes mobile phones and smartphones but really practical inventions are. If you would like to go travelling for example. It was on around the world or in the public transport: the mobile phone may soon completely replaced the good old ticket. You can secure its flight for example already via Smartphone. The ticket itself is as an E-mail or delivered as SMS with link.

Current advantage for iPhone owners

When it comes to comfortable posting, at the moment are the iPhone owners in the advantage. As for their devices normally special apps to the booking of tickets exist. Android, Symbian, Bada, Windows Mobile and co. are often still in the second row. Which means that they only website come closer on the detour to the destination. For the iPhone it looks like this: after the order is sent the ticket as a so-called Aztec code via MMS on your mobile phone. Aztec code are small square black and white Krisselbilder, recognized by the reader as a ticket.

Krisselbilder make travel more comfortable

Thanks to these codes, flies, bus driving and ski lift use are already reality for many people without a paper ticket. So it is off at the airport check-in by reader and is ready for departure. Online bookings at the railway work in the same pattern: connections raussuchen, pay, download code, leave. This system is now used also for bus, light rail and subway. Under the banner of mobile ticket 14 transport companies from all over Germany met, that allow the mobile phone as a ticket replacement.

Smartphone-ticket deleted or empty battery: what to do?

Of course sometimes that you accidentally delete the mail with his flight ticket data on his Smartphone. No problem! Because the data are and will be kept. You can check-in to relax Classic at the counter. It is more complicated when a train ticket, you only mobile has saved on his phone. Here it helps if you go to play it safe - so take at best charger. Or, where appropriate, but print - because radio holes in the tunnel have always come back and often unexpectedly.

How are your experiences?

Check a you already via phone at the airport or where you use your phone as ticket alternative? And what other applications still miss you?

Arno
BASE Ambassador

Source of image: Egon Häbich / pixelio.de, Aztec code, / than

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