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?
So long as you have the QR Code/bar code available and printed out, then you will be fine. Many places will allow you to just pull up a screenshot of the code that was sent to your email on your mobile device. I dislike installing apps I don’t need so I try to use alternatives where I can.
Failing that your name and reservation number (for airlines it is a 6 character alphanumeric string) should do the trick but then you still need to go to a kiosk or checkin counter.