Jetstar to go mobile
- BTN News
- Friday, 04 September 2009
The company's cio Stephen Tame said the problem with airport gates was “that they are generally 100 metres away from the networks. Running wired networks is quite expensive. It can cost A$10,000 to run a piece of cable down the airport channel".
Tame said the netbooks will only be required in airports where connectivity at the gate was unavailable or too expensive.
Jetstar also plans to introduce SMS-based boarding passes. Passengers will check in online or at a counter and then receive a text message with three lines of code that will be scanned at the boarding gate by staff with a hand-held reader.