Star Alliance launch new mobile platform

Star Alliance announced Monday its development of a Common IT Mobile Platform allowing its member carriers to provide mobile services to individual travellers.

EGYPTAIR, South African Airways and TAP Portugal are the first member carriers to use the common technological standards, each airline designing their portal to their own specifications.

The mobile services are being rolled out in various stages and will provide services such as flight schedules, real time flight departures and arrivals, lounge information, currency converter, weather and information on destinations.

Interactive services will also be made available in the coming weeks, allowing access to Frequent Flyer Programme status, notification in case of irregularities, online check-in with seat maps for seat selection and mobile boarding passes with 2D bar codes will be made available.

“With one technological base now in place, more carriers will be able to offer mobile services, as the integration between airline systems and the mobile portal is simple and flexible” said chief executive Jaan Albrecht.