It's been a number of years since I have been able to travel to a conference. It's been 5 years since I've been to an Interop conference. Things have definitely changed as far as air travel is concerned. I know what you are thinking, but I actually have something positive to mention :-)
So I get this email from Delta Airlines this afternoon exactly, and I mean exactly, 24 hours before the scheduled departure time of my flight. The email is inviting me to check in for my flight. Of course I read it on my iPhone, so I'm thinking I'm not going to to even attempt this until I get back to my desk and can deal with this on a "real" computer. Well I got busy and forgot about the email.
This evening I'm on my iPad checking my mail and I notice the Delta email again. I figure I'll see how far I can get before I have to move to my laptop. So I touch the link in the email, which brings up a browser window and off I go without any need for logging in (or Adobe flash).
The amazing thing is that I get all the way through the process of paying ahead of time for the 1 bag I'm going to check ($23 grumble, grumble, grumble) and getting my boarding passes. What's also amazing is that I click on the print button on the web page and my receipt for my 1 piece of checked luggage and my boarding passes all print just fine, advertisements and all!
How am I printing from my iPad you ask? Well it's printing to a USB printer attached to our desktop Mac which has been hacked to be an airprint server, so the printer just shows up on the print diaglog box on the iPad, which pops up automatically when I click on the button on the web page.
Pretty amazing! I'm beginning to think I might be ok without a "real" computer this week.
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