Easy-breezy global travel: Verify your passport from home with AS’ Mobile Verify
 

https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-ai...tional-travel/

Full details: https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...port-lobby#idv
I wonder if this will support two different passports in the same profile (American and Canadian).

About time. Just the other day the app made me enter all the passport info for the two of us… and then aborted the checkin with a message that we had to show the passports to the airport agent. Status was “not checked in”.

Very nice. Too bad you have to downloads another app to verify first and that app scans the passport NFC. Way overkill compared to other airline app where you can just scan/take photo within the airlines app.

I agree 100% I guess it is part of the new "lobby" experience. "Lobby" forms part of the url link. :D

https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...port-lobby#idv

James

Just downloaded and entered my info successfully. However going. To Vancouver with the kid in a few weeks and will still need to check in the traditional method for kid. Not sure if it will accept the kids passport in the kids phone

This is sad that it still isn’t a functionality for Alaska. For American, in 2020, I could use the tap function with my iPhone in the AA app to scan my passport.

how is this still such a challenge?

Kids have to be 13 or older

will wait for that time.

The share of international traffic for AA is substantially more than it is for AS, making it a higher investment priority.

I posted another thread on this as this thread did not mention the Airside app. I think it's a terrible experience

I am presently in Cabo with my family, checking into fly back tomorrow. except, now Alaska forces you to enter your passport details into an app called Airside. You'd think there would have said something in advance rather than forcing users into using this new app when in another country. The process to enter the correct information for my kids on the same booking is not present - both because if they don't have a device, they can't enter info (ie one device per person), you have to enter a large amount of PII into an app that no one seems to know about (as indicated by searching for "airside" in the Alaska forum. It has a couple of cool features (nfc scamming) and you can get a BP to go through without lining up. However, the workflow for entering detail is not good, single user per instance and no alternative is offered when you hit the wall. i eventually checked in via the web.

If Alaska IT is reading this, you gotta do better than this. Frankly, if we are part of a test group, it would have been nice if Alaska told us or at least informed people there was a new requirement before their trips...

airside=2/10 for me

/iain

Is going through all this this really more convenient than just showing up at the airport with your passports and checking in normally?

absolutely not in Cabo or Canada as the 2 places I’ve been. This frustration and process (relatively speaking) is not of any added value as the time it takes for our family with status is typically minimum to start.

There are a number of these passport verification operations running. WestJet and IAG among others use Zamna. United says your information will be processed by an unnamed 3rd party.

With the amount of hacks and breaches happening that we barely get information about even when our data been compromised, not something I plan to bother with.

My wife and I tried it out for the kicks of it, and we now have mobile boarding passes.

Agree 100%...I tried the AA "tap" the passport method as well as the "scanning" method and neither worked after multiple tries prior to an AA trip from Europe last month.... total waste of time.