Alaska Airlines updated its iOS application, bringing few neat features to the mix. The most significant new feature is the ability to check in and access your mobile boarding pass within the app, removing the need to carry any paper on your trips. Moreover, you can use Alaska’s app to track flight status and boarding information, create text or email flight alerts, select and change seats, create a parking reminder, add notes for hotel and car reservations. In addition, there’s the access to “My Trips” for viewing multiple flight itineraries, as well as the ability to track Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan account information. And that’s just a start. Later this year, the airline plans to launch an Android app and a refreshed mobile website to reach even more mobile users. Commenting on the news, Curtis Kopf (Alaska Airlines’ managing director of customer innovation) said: “Our new iPhone and iPod touch app Read More

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 Read More