British graphic designer Peter Smart is no stranger ... His frequent travel led to an improved design for a boarding pass, which he first sketched on a cramped tray table in the last nine hours ...

Barcode and QR codes. Those black and white graphics on your boarding passes aren’t there for decoration — they’re digital representations of your flight information. Experts warn that ...

In the afternoon of December 15, 2009, graphic designer Tyler Thompson ... his laptop and began sketching his own take on the boarding pass. “Airports are not fun, and I thought if you could ...

Airline websites generate boarding passes as graphics files, which means anyone with a little bit of skill can modify them in a program like Photoshop. All Soghoian's website did was automate the ...

Airports are stressful environments. It doesn't help that the one document we're given to make sense of it all, the boarding pass, has about as much of a human touch as a EULA read aloud by Siri.

When you travel, you give your boarding pass a quick glance to find your gate ... a “Y” on your ticket (as indicated in the below graphic) means you’re in economy class, and “Q” means ...

On one hand, boarding passes don’t have to be so painfully designed, as this proposal proves. On the other, even gorgeous tickets won’t guarantee an on-time departure. Recently, we covered ...

One transportation official thinks so. — -- Is the boarding pass going overboard? They could soon become a thing of the past, according to one top transportation official. To address the ...