If you see "SEQ 001" on your boarding pass, it's more than just a random string of letters and numbers. It's a special code and may even come with benefits.

Airline boarding passes can be a mystery of acronyms, but one code could mean the difference between getting on a flight or being left behind.

Imagine a future where you’re able to board an American Airlines flight without a gate agent scanning your boarding pass.

If your boarding pass doesn't have an assigned seat and instead shows these three letters, there's a strong possibility your ...

A traveler took to social media to share their experience using their mobile boarding pass in order to share an important message with fellow travelers. Titled "Always screenshot your boarding pass ...

Europe’s biggest budget airline plans to scrap most paper boarding passes from 12 November 2025. Instead, passengers will be expected to present the pass from the Ryanair app on a smartphone. Ryanair ...

In our "Weekly Innovation" blog series, we explore an interesting idea, design or product that you may not have heard of yet. Do you have an innovation to share? Use this quick form. Airports are ...

Flying has come a long way. Today, traveling by plane is a mostly paperless experience with little human interaction. We book our tickets online, check in at self-service kiosks, and download our ...

Continental is testing a new system that allows passengers to have a boarding pass sent directly to their cell phone, eliminating the need for a printed version. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET ...

If you're flying the friendly skies this holiday, keep that boarding pass to yourself whether it's the traditional paper ticket or an online boarding pass. If it gets in the wrong hands, it could be a ...

When you're tired and in a hurry, it can be hard to make sense of drunken jumbles of numbers, letters, colons, and barcodes at a quick glance. What might a useful, less confusing boarding pass look ...

The woman and her belongings were screened by TSA, according to the report. A woman who was able to board a Delta flight without a boarding pass or ID bypassed the Transportation Security ...