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Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air (subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group) are going beyond the mobile website (available through mobile.alaskaair.com) to address their on-the-go customers. The dedicated application is released for iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile platforms and is available as a free download from www.alaskaair.com/mobile.
Using the application, users can access the most frequently used functions they need on the day of flight. In other words, that’s flight status information, flight schedules, web check-in and flight alerts. Moreover, there’s the “My Trips” feature from where you can view your itinerary, change seat, check or upgrade status, and add an Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan number to a reservation. Finally, you can grab the electronic boarding pass from within the app.
It’s good to see airlines adopting wireless technology. If you remember, about two weeks ago, we reported that Alaska Airlines plans to offer WiFi on all of its aircrafts, and so do Virgin, United Airlines and Delta.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
