Three airlines allow cellphone check-in on US flights

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Three US airlines are permitting passengers to check in to domestic flights using cellphones or other web-enabled devices, the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.

Delta Air Lines domestic passengers departing out of New York's La Guardia airport may use a paperless check-in system that would have them download a boarding pass with a bar code to their phone or device that would be scanned by TSA at security checkpoints and upon boarding the plane.

US carrier Continental launched a similar system in November 2007 at four US airports including Newark. Northwest debuted its paperless boarding system in May out of the Indianapolis airport in Indiana.

"Passengers can now quickly check in for their flight while en route to the...