Please ask Emirates to support PassBook !
 

It would be great to have nice boarding passes that you could keep in your phone without local data access !

Local data access? I just use the online mobile boarding pass on Wifi and then save it as a offline page on my S3 to access anytime without data access. Surely there must be an equivalent with iPhone? or even just a screenshot?

Mark

Yes, on the iPhone you can just take a screenshot of the pass. Infact the Emirates website suggests doing just that to save it : http://www.emirates.com/english/plan...ding_pass.aspx

However I do agree with the OP, it would be nice for them to support PassBook

+1, but Emirates & Skywards do not even have an iPhone application...

iphone suck.

steve jobs once said that he would use his dying breath and last cent to destroy android.... hmm kinda got it wrong there stevie.

Now just waiting for the apple lovers to jump up and down. Go for it.:D

What for? The mobile website is very well done.

I haven't found any Skywards mobile website...

Thats not Skywards...

I find it really frustrating that they haven't sorted out a decent app.

Whats keepin' em?:confused:

My mistake, just thought about emirates.com instead of Skywards.
You are right, a decent app/mobile site is missing for Skywards.

PassBook is not a passive Boarding Pass:
- Show on lock screen at the right time & date, or at location (when you're approaching the airport for example),
- active push for gates, delay, miles, upgrades, etc...
- does not rotate
- unlockable from lock screen give direct access, no manipulation

I can show some exemple forged in 10 mn with passkit.com

I was on that camp side too, but the 5 is really good. It has few annoyances like its keypad, battery life (specially when LTE is on) and poor dictation support. I do still think it's overhyped as phone though.

Back to the topic, EK really needs to lift its game with mobile apps. Not sure why/how they're been overlooking this for so many years. I know you could access most of the functionality/information through a browser, but to be honest the experience and usability is very poor. It's like they kept their site from the early naughties as a mobile version.

its not EKs fault, the UAE is quite old fashioned in lots of ways and the law is very underdeveloped.

How many other parts of the world rely so heavily on cheques? :D

What does the law have to do with a company launching a mobile app?

RTA, DEWA, ADCB, ENBD all have mobile apps

QR just released their app......

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qatar...obile-app.html

I guess only those parts of the World that actually hold someone accountable for writing a check when they don't have the funds available to cover it when the time comes for it to be presented. This may seem underdeveloped to some but to an old fashioned person like me that believes any checks I issue should be capable of being cleared on the due date, it makes a lot of sense and actually is a great aid to business.

Many suggests that EK needs an app & I just wanted to point out: although it does introduces a somewhat profound level of conveinience for Airlines to have mobile applications, it is not critical - which as you can see is the result of it's mobile supported webpage, in which it carries the function of what the non-existent app is intended for, i.e. mobile check-in, mobile boarding passes etc.

Developing an app, especially on EK's scale of operation is highly inefficient (additional costs involved with development, maintaining etc.) and although feasible, it does not yield a significant impact for any traveller of that kind with respect to the current available system. I know that it won't for me and I am someone who tripped 20RT from SYD-DXB in 2012, all checked in through the mobile webpage and boarded with a mobile boarding pass.

EK does not actually require a dedicated iOS application to support Passbook, Passbook is an aggregator - a seperate native iOS application and in order to support all demographics in regards to smartphones operating systems - EK would also need to somehow push the same data and functions to Android phones (considering more than 50% of smartphones circulating are Androids, as opposed 37% of smartphones are iOS devices)

Would you not agree that, this is an inefficient and illogical method to distribute mobile boarding passes as opposed to the one currently being used?

While I agree that the practically, the mobile supported webpage does the job, I had a good laugh when I had to book an Egypt Air flight for the first time yesterday and noticed that ''EgyptAir Plus'' has an Iphone/Android/Windows Mobile app and Skywards has... nothing.

Not at all, the world is mobile, EK, whilst priding itself on a 21st century product in the skies, need to realise that they need to do the same on the ground.