"Before even arriving at the airport, you are able to go to our Web site, bring up your reservation and check-in, print out your boarding pass," said Jack Walsh, spokesman for Alaska Airlines.
Passenger Name Record (PNR) data is provided by passengers and collected by air carriers during the reservation and check-in procedures.
It can also show links to the OpenTable app to make reservations and check availability.
The new kiosks at two Marriott locations in China will be able to scan and identify guests' faces, pull up their reservations, and check them in all without the help of humans.
Meanwhile, Marriott has been using AI-powered chat bots at nearly 5,000 hotels to do things like make reservation changes, and check on account balances or redemption vouchers.
The carrier said the shutdown was related to an upgrade of its reservations and check-in systems.
The low-cost airline AirTran Airways said yesterday that a planned shutdown of its internal reservations and check-in systems unintentionally caused delays that persisted into the afternoon.
At the Radisson, hotel managers tried to get back to business, and staff members took reservations and checked in guests even as investigators were sifting through the wreckage.
Users of the Pocket Net service have free, unlimited access to about 40 Web sites for tasks like finding directions, shopping for books and CD's, trading stocks, making flight reservations and checking news headlines.
Several airlines use the Amadeus software to manage reservations and check-in desks.
Basically, Kukunu helps people build their itinerary across cities before planning other aspects of trips, such as booking hotels, making restaurant reservations and checking out which landmarks are worth visiting along the way.
