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- From: dge@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (donald.c.estberg)
- Subject: Interesting application by British Airways using Poqet
- Reply-To: dge1@homxb.att.com
- Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 07:12:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.071215.26425@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
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- A mobile airline check-in system designed to shorten those
- interminably long queues at airports has been developed by
- Speedwing, British Airways' external IT consulting and
- marketing division. Speedwing has developed software that
- enables British Airways staff carrying Poqet hand-held
- computers to access its mainframe computers to check in
- passengers and luggage. Airline staff at the airport will
- "comb" the queues in search of passengers who are waiting to
- check in for flights that are about to depart. [Those]
- passengers will be invited to complete the check-in process
- on the spot. [Financial Times]
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