Scope:
Trial
Status:
Planned
Fifty frequent flyers at French regional airport Toulouse-Blagnac will test an application that puts a
NFC Times Take:
Organizers say the trial will be a first for putting airport security passes on SIM cards in NFC phones. The trial, however, does not store mobile boarding passes or frequent flyer numbers on the SIM. That could come later, with airline IT provider SITA and partners developing NFC applications that it hopes one day could replace 2-D bar codes to speed passengers through airport security and gates. SITA plans to help launch an NFC test likely involving mobile boarding passes with a major airline later this summer.
* Trusted Service Manager: Defined loosely to include companies or other organizations securely distributing, provisioning and managing applications, generally over the air, on secure elements in NFC mobile phones; or licensing their platforms for this purpose.
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Last update: May 2012
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