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Old Sep 5, 2017 | 1:21 pm
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villox
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Originally Posted by S.R
http://fortune.com/2017/09/05/amazon...ited-airlines/

Looks like we can now ask Alexa to check in for our flights, check flight status, amenities, etc. I'll definitely be trying this out later this week!

What do you think of this? Sure its kind of a gimmick, but its also kind of cool IMO.
I tried it last week. The first couple times it had problems communicating with the United skill. Then it made it most of the way through but claimed something went wrong, but when I pulled up the app it had checked me in.

Given I still need to open the app to get the boarding pass it didn't really save much time, but I guess it was a cool gimmick.
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