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Ok, I just returned from my trip via United Airlines and used Passbook for the first time. Everything works great from the time you have to log into United's iOS app then send to passbook. The boarding pass shows up and I used it through security and boarding the plane. Now I'm home, and the boarding pass is still there and I keep getting a message on my phone saying that my flight leaves at 4:42 CST. Great! But how do I remove the passes from passbook? Or stop the alert? I see no way of deleting anything. THanks,

Click the "i" and hit the trash bin icon.

Oops. Somebody just beat me to it but thanks for sharing your experience.
 
Bought another set of tickets on Fandango. Still nothing on my Passbook. I'm done with this app. Lame brains at Apple. They dropped the ball. Having an app to make another app work is just stupid anyway.

Like everything else lately, they do things half-ass, but talk about it like it's so great. Maps is a disaster.
 
Checked in for an American flight tomorrow, and it placed the boarding pass as expected into my Passbook. Looking forward to trying this at the airport.
 
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Thanks for sharing your experience with passbook with me. I'll know what to expect the next time I travel using passbook. Luckily airports that I frequent accept paperless boarding yay


electronic tickets and boarding passes are not new. there is no way the TSA is not going to let you through with a ticket on your iphone and no paper ticket.

only old people still print out paper tickets, go to the counter to check in, etc. unless you are flying out of the USA. or you fly smaller airlines that don't have apps yet like i do. even then i just check in online, drop my bags outside and just go to security while the peons wait with their paper tickets in a long line
 
electronic tickets and boarding passes are not new. there is no way the TSA is not going to let you through with a ticket on your iphone and no paper ticket.

only old people still print out paper tickets, go to the counter to check in, etc. unless you are flying out of the USA. or you fly smaller airlines that don't have apps yet like i do. even then i just check in online, drop my bags outside and just go to security while the peons wait with their paper tickets in a long line

A strange comment about people's age. There are airports that don't yet have electonic boarding pass to get through security so even if you are young and immature you may still have to use paper boarding passes to get through at least security. TSA needs the equipment to read your electronic pass to allow you without a piece of paper.
 
electronic tickets and boarding passes are not new. there is no way the TSA is not going to let you through with a ticket on your iphone and no paper ticket.

only old people still print out paper tickets, go to the counter to check in, etc. unless you are flying out of the USA. or you fly smaller airlines that don't have apps yet like i do. even then i just check in online, drop my bags outside and just go to security while the peons wait with their paper tickets in a long line

Wow, old people...peons...

Nice acceptance of others.

I hate to break it to you but I know plenty of people in their twenties that print boarding passes. Then again perhaps they are peons. :rolleyes:
 
yes, my last trip i printed a boarding pass too because i flew on a small cheap airline with no smartphone app. but i checked in online and dropped my bags off outside.

i went inside and saw a huge line at the check in counter full of people with paper tickets. why? i don't know
 


Cineplex just made Passbook useful.

They've added their Scene points card to Passbook. Not only does it take one more card out of your wallet, it keeps track of your Scene points.

With Starbucks coming this weekend, it's starting to make sense.
 
OK, as promised, here's a visual review of my Passbook use yesterday.

Keep in mind at this point, Passbook is kind of optional: I could have used the native app to present the tickets. The idea behind Passbook is provide a single access point for all pass/ticket/card resources (kind of like the magazine rack), and some constant interfaces (both UI and the underlying API).

OK, so we were sitting in the restaurant, planning to see Looper, and I used Fandango to handle the transaction. We walked in, handed the ticket-girl the phone, she swiped it, handed us a ticket proof-of-purchase (stub basically), and we were off (one swipe, no mis-scans or anything). Like I mentioned in a previous post, 2D codes are [in addition to other reasons] designed to be read from displays/screens (vs. 1D which are pretty much only for printing).


So here's the screenie review :D


Viewing the main Looper page, saved in My Movies (favorites):

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Selecting the theater (based on GPS location data):

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Selected theater indicates they have digital passes (note that this theater was also listed as a Passbook compliant location via that Fandango link a few pages back):

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A popup with directions for how to use it:

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Stepped through the purchase process and completed:

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... and here's the Passbook option, clicked and it copies it into the Passbook UI:

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Ticket as it appears in passbook (actually this is after clicking add from Fandango, the only diff once added is the Add/Cancel buttons aren't shown) - front side with purchase source, code, date,time:

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The rear of the Passbook ticket (extra info, including a reference number in case there's an issue):

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If configured, Passbook items will display based on GPS data (and the pass/ticket location), here's my lock screen showing the Fandango ticket alerting that it's available based on location:

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Ticket used, so on the backside there's a delete option (with confirmation):

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...and as some folks might have seen in various demos, it has a fun little animation of the ticket getting shredded:

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Passbook with no tickets (we've all seen this :) ). Note that with just a single pass in Passbook, that's all that showed when running it. In other words, I saw the below before buying, and the screen above of the Fandango ticket when entering Passbook. I actually meant to add something else to see how it looked with multiple passes:

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Sound like a smooth experience. It's convincing you have no problem scanning QR, and no need to put in password or anything. Thank you for sharing.
And this is much better demo than some professional bloggers did.
Also sound like the ticket girl wasn't surprised about the phone at all.
 
Okay I have a few passbook passes in my passbook app. So how do I get back to the App Store which has the list of apps supported? I also tried searching "passbook apps" in the app store but I never see the initial list of apps.

This is crazy!
 
Okay I have a few passbook passes in my passbook app. So how do I get back to the App Store which has the list of apps supported? I also tried searching "passbook apps" in the app store but I never see the initial list of apps.

This is crazy!

There's a new section in the App Store called "Apps For Passbook"
 
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Cineplex just made Passbook useful.

They've added their Scene points card to Passbook. Not only does it take one more card out of your wallet, it keeps track of your Scene points.

With Starbucks coming this weekend, it's starting to make sense.

I accidentally deleted my scene passbook last night, and now when I try to add it back from the app, it doesn't work; does this happen to anyone else? :confused:
 
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