I believe you intended Alaska Airlines when you wrote "Air Alaska"? The only "Air Alaska" are small regional Alaskan companies with other names attached such as "Alpine Air Alaska," "Bering Air Alaska," "Bay Air Alaska," etc...

Alaska Airlines has been extremely innovative in the past. I believe they were the first to have online booking, flight check in kiosks, cockpit door locks etc..

Posted By IOlaire McFadden on November 18, 2008, 10:11 AM

You're right, Iolaire. I've re-published the post with the correction.
Thanks--and thanks, too, for your many other helpful comments on the blog over the past year. You're a real resource for our community.

Posted By Blog Editor on November 18, 2008, 11:19 AM

Great !! It won't be long now until we no longer have to actually communicate with a real person. That may be what's wrong with us now.

Posted By Kate Griffin on November 19, 2008, 1:35 PM

Road Warriors are in joyful 'praise' all across America! Now maybe the airlines can concentrate on delivering quality customer service again!!!

Posted By Ali Vernon on November 19, 2008, 2:11 PM

To Kate: Exactly how are you communicating with a real person now when you go to a kiosk to get your boarding pass printed from a machine?

Posted By Kevin on November 20, 2008, 1:00 PM

Maybe I'm just missing the point, but I think I see a huge hole in this idea, and its the TSA. In order to get through security, I always need to show a copy of my boarding pass. The nice man looks at my driver's license and makes orange marks on the boarding pass.

is the TSA also going to have these scanners? Just curious

Posted By bc on November 20, 2008, 1:06 PM

This is helpful, sort of, but the focus needs to be on a better way to get through TSA roadblocks.

Posted By mauilady on November 20, 2008, 1:38 PM

Wonderful. Maybe flying will someday be as easy aa it was FIFTY YEARS AGO.

Posted By Jimmy Taps on November 20, 2008, 2:55 PM

bc,

That TSA id checker is only concerned with matching the person to the boarding pass/ticket, and not much else. Your stuff (ie. carry-on and purse/bag) is already going through the x-ray machines. It's really the airline's responsibility to make sure you're on the correct flight.

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Posted By S.KRISHNASWAMY on November 21, 2008, 3:18 AM

But the big stinker is if you collect miles/points. If they do not post you no longer have a paper record of your boarding pass to send in when the miles/points do not post. Good idea but needs more thought.

Posted By stephen on November 21, 2008, 8:37 PM

The TSA check question isn't resolved - most airports I've been to, you have to put your cell phones in the bin to be xrayed...then you walk thru a scanner, and after have to show your boarding pass.
So how does one do that when their boarding pass is on the xray machine belt ? The TSA will have to allow customers to carry their cell phones with them and not be xrayed, right ? Not that their stupid security check matters much anyway, it's just there to justify their jobs, those security checks don't really improve security whatsoever. They just hassle passengers and waste time & money.

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