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  • PassKit fills its mobile wallet with $1.2 million in funding

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    Hong Kong-based mobile wallet startup PassKit that offers a B2B service for building Apple Passbook applications, has secured $1.2 million in first round of its funding. The 10-employee company, which launched in June 2012, didn’t disclose the investors involved in this Series A round. The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the investors. [...]

  • Three ways mobile will change the way we travel by 2015

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    Travelers want instantaneous information at their fingertips when they fly, and technology is quickly catching up to their expectations. Air travel technology specialist SITA has came out with a report Flying into the Future that looks at how the industry will change in just three years, by 2015. 1. Mobile bookings and purchases will become more [...]

  • JetBlue launches mobile boarding passes, Passbook integration coming

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    JetBlue only got around to launching its first mobile app a year ago, and today it upgraded its iPhone app with mobile boarding passes, and the ability to book rewards travel. There’s no Passbook integration yet, although a spokesperson says it’s in the works. Version 2.0 of JetBlue’s iPhone app enables passengers from eight airports [...]

  • JetBlue is very tardy, but finally working on mobile boarding passes

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    JetBlue is working on offering mobile boarding passes. This could include its own mobile boarding pass program as well as an integration with Apple’s Passbook app, an official said. Jonathan Stephen, who heads JetBlue’s mobile efforts, also said last week during the Mobile Marketer’s Mobile FirstLook: Strategy 2013 conference that while the airline’s current focus in [...]

  • Delta updates iOS apps with Passbook support and inspirational guides

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    Delta updated its Fly Delta iPhone app, integrating Apple Passbook for mobile boarding passes, and launched its first iPad app, which incorporates several inspirational elements. If you are sitting on your couch at home, using  the iPad app, and looking for a vacation destination, you can spin a globe, select a red pin, and view [...]

  • SkiftSeedlings: Six startups that travelers and the travel industry should know about

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    This week’s startup roundup covers apps and services that aid travelers before and during a journey, but also includes operational tools for travel companies that are working to engage with travelers online and meet them where they are, which is more often than not, on their mobile device. If you know of any early-stage travel [...]

  • American Airlines and Apple Passbook produce 20,000 boarding passes per day

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    Apple’s Passbook feature of iOS 6 has become a surprise hit for developers. Passbook is virtual file folder for all those bits of paper you accumulate in your wallet: tickets, boarding passes, coupons and so forth. The Apple-built app aggregates them from third-party apps like Fandango and Starbucks in one convenient place. Each app gets [...]

  • Why airlines must pay close attention to Concur, Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon

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    IATA, the international industry trade group of airlines, has come out with a new report identifying major trends that are transforming the travel and specifically airline distribution landscape. As part of that 35-page report, done by the erstwhile Atmosphere Research Group for IATA, a very interesting part about alternative distribution channels caught our eye, and we’re extracting [...]

  • Google’s answer to Passbook? Google Now delivers United boarding passes to Android users

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    Google’s Search App has received a travel-focused update just in time for the holidays. The update adds new capabilities to Google Now, including United Airlines boarding passes, and the app’s feature set designed to deliver frequently searched-for information before you even think to search for it. In the updated app, Google Now will still bubble [...]

  • American Airlines likes Apple Passbook so far and is considering new features

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    Three months after implementing Apple Passbook for mobile boarding passes, American Airlines likes what it sees, and is considering adding other location-based features such as seat upgrade notifications. “Adoption among all of our app users has been quite high,” says Phil Easter, American’s director of mobile apps. American, United and Lufthansa were among the airlines [...]