BA reports huge rise in use of mobile boarding passes
The number of British Airways passengers using mobile boarding passes has grown from 25 a day in 2010 to more than 28,000 today.
The airline released the figures to highlight the trend as it celebrates five years since becoming the first UK airline to launch the technology.
It said industry research suggests that by 2019 more than 1.5 billion boarding passes – about 1 in 3 passengers – are expected to be issued annually across the world’s airlines.
BA said it has also seen a 40-fold increase in the number of people downloading its smartphone app since it became the first airline in the world to launch one in 2008.
In 2008, it was added by 118,000 people and today the figure has topped 5 million.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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