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Boarding a plane – take your mobile!

15/12/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The hottest change in the airline industry is the rapid move to BCBP, bar code boarding passes, whose use has nearly doubled in the past year. By the end of 2010 airports should have 100 percent BCBP coverage, meaning that airlines should be able to adopt this service if they want […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: air travel, airlines, improvements, industry, itinerary inside bag, lost baggage, mobile phones, passengers, pre-flight check-ins

Swiss train tickets: buy before you board or pay CHF10 “tax”

17/06/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The CHF5 you now pay if you’ve rushed onto a Swiss train without buying your ticket in advance will go up to CHF10 on Switzerland’s national day, 1 August. The CFF rail company and public transport authorities have agreed to the increase in order to discourage the growing number of people […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: conductor, fine, mobile phones, on train, purchase, stations, Swiss news, tax, tickets, trains, vending machines

Better mobile connections coming: Geneva-Lausanne and in trains

10/04/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – Swiss will be doubling the capacity and also the speed of its Internet connection lines in coming months, and enlarging its mobile phone base by 20 percent, it has told TSR. The combination should create a major improvement in mobile phone service, particularly Internet via mobile phone. A […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Bern, CFF, connection, Geneva, Lausanne, mobile phones, reception, Swiss trains, Swisscom, Switzerland, travel

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