sfozrhfco

After the MAX incident they need to change the language on that press release. At this point, I don’t think AS should be connecting breezy and their flights in any way.

PDXTom

Tried using this for upcoming trip. Tutorial fails to advise you to remove phone cover to scan for passport chip; only find that most useful info if you read reviews of app.

Also, no where at app or Alaska does it indicate you should complete process (create ID and then specific flight, which is a whole other process) BEFORE checking in on line. We still have no boarding pass even though Alaska app shows we have verified passports. So to the agent we will go...

Time saver? Convenient? Not so much

worldwidedreamer

I wonder if that is true. AA is much more of a domestic airline than UA or DL.

Boraxo

This app is mediocre. I can scan the page but I get a big fail on the chip scan.

UA app manages to scan passports with camera without need for a nonfunctional 3rd party app - not sure why AS can’t do the same.Also UA retains the info in my account so I don’t need to scan again. Not sure why this is too difficult for AS.

also not sure what this means for checkin. can I get a BP on the AS app or will I need to wait in line at the airport to get the BP if I don’t use this stupid app?

Very disappointing and poor rollout

Addendum: finally got it to work after about 10 tries scanning chip and holding phone at weird angle each time. Same for Mrs. B. Good advice about removing phone cover.

dayone

The scanned passport in the United app also can be used with UA's trial of the TSA PreCheck's Touchless Identity (facial recognition) Solution. I certainly hope that AS joins AA, DL and UA in rolling out this functionality.

TalkingPoint

Agree. As someone who is traveling internationally a few times a month, it's just so easy with everyone else. For whatever reason I go to Airside, finish everything, and it directs me back to the AS app where it never updates to say approved. Although I'm able to generate a boarding pass. I didn't bother to do Airside verification for my trip today and I was still able to get boarding pass after just entering in my passport (wish it was saved) online so I'm confused what Airside is even for. On the other hand my stored passport info is just saved with United and I can always instantly generate a boarding pass without clunky third party apps. Much better experience with United but that really is to be expected. They have the cleanest app experience by far.

vanillabean

The Airside app has been working fine for me with Alaska reservations, and it's been working fine for my wife. It remembers the passport for each of us, and entering a trip is quick. When we make a new reservation however, Alaska keeps bringing up an old passport for each of us; I suspect we have to call it in.

Sounds as easy as Global Entry, which works nicely for us.

Boraxo

Ditto. AS app never updated to say passport validation completed even after I entered flight info. Thankfully (like you) we were able to generate BPs so we could skip airport lines and go straight to security. However we were stopped at the gate (BP would not scan) and told to step aside so the other GA could validate passports (which took a ridiculous # of keystrokes). Idiotic!