boarding pass
noun
US
: a special piece of paper that one must have in order to be allowed to get onto an airplane
Please present your boarding pass to the flight attendant.
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Through a secure internet connection to TSA’s Secure Flight system, the units are also able to verify that you are ticketed for air travel that day, so there’s no need to show a boarding pass to the TSA officer.
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Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
One flier in the Indian city of Hyderabad posted a picture of a curiosity usually unseen in the modern digital age: a handwritten boarding pass.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 July 2024
And as airlines continue to roll out similar technologies for efficient travel—like TSA readers that scan passengers' faces instead of their boarding pass and biometric boarding at the airline gate—even mobile boarding passes may soon become a relic of the past.
—Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 May 2023
Images shared to social media showed a whiteboard displaying flight updates at Belfast International Airport in Northern Ireland, and a handwritten boarding pass for a flight with India’s IndiGo.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 19 July 2024
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Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
One flier in the Indian city of Hyderabad posted a picture of a curiosity usually unseen in the modern digital age: a handwritten boarding pass.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 July 2024
And as airlines continue to roll out similar technologies for efficient travel—like TSA readers that scan passengers' faces instead of their boarding pass and biometric boarding at the airline gate—even mobile boarding passes may soon become a relic of the past.
—Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 May 2023
Images shared to social media showed a whiteboard displaying flight updates at Belfast International Airport in Northern Ireland, and a handwritten boarding pass for a flight with India’s IndiGo.
—Jenni Reid, CNBC, 19 July 2024
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“Boarding pass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boarding%20pass. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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