{"id":263174,"date":"2017-10-27T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=263174"},"modified":"2017-10-27T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:00:23","slug":"united-offers-boarding-passes-partner-airlines-via-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/united-offers-boarding-passes-partner-airlines-via-mobile-app\/","title":{"rendered":"United offers boarding passes for  partner airlines via its mobile app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GUAM<\/strong>\u2014United Airlines announced yesterday a new enhancement to the United app that will allow customers to receive boarding passes when connecting to 19 airline partners on their smartphones, a feature that no other U.S. carrier currently offers. <\/p>\n<p>This functionality will be available for customers traveling on United who are making an onward connection on another carrier and will improve the functionality of United\u2019s award-winning app, which is relied on over 500 million times a year by customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we continue to make improvements to the United app, we found that simply allowing our customers to access boarding passes for their entire itinerary within the same app made a big difference,\u201d said Kate Gebo, chief customer officer at United. \u201cOur partnerships with Star Alliance carriers and other partner airlines can take our customers to over a thousand destinations around the world, and we\u2019re excited to be the first U.S. carrier to provide customers with this convenience when connecting to partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The following airline partners\u2019 boarding passes are now accessible through the United app, with more partners to be added in the near future: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, AN, Asiana Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Azul Brazilian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Cape Air, Croatia Airlines, EVA Airways, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, SWISS, Thai Airways, and Turkish Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Through its partnerships with other airlines, United is able to connect customers to approximately 1,300 destinations around the world. Customers can book flights on United\u2019s partners, as well as earn and redeem United MileagePlus miles on its partner airlines through the United app. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUAM\u2014United Airlines announced yesterday a new enhancement to the United app that will allow customers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18820,51,18821,18822],"class_list":["post-263174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-adria-airways","tag-guam","tag-kate-gebo","tag-star-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}