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Online Check-In
在线登记
Instead of having to queue up at the airport behind the Clampetts, you can now check in from your personal computer, print out a boarding pass and breeze past the waiting throng to the gate (stopping first, of course, to remove your shoes at security).
与先前必须在机场排队不同，现在你只需一台联网的个人电脑即可完成登记、打印登记证，就可以通过安全门等待登机了（当然，你先得在安全门那儿脱鞋接受安全检查）。
Mobile Boarding Passes
手机登记证
Perhaps it was inevitable that your iPhone or Blackberry would double as a boarding pass some day—and that day is arriving sooner than you think.
或许将来某一天你的iPhone或者黑莓手机可以兼有登记证的功能——而这一天来到的要比你想象的早得多。
Self-Service Boarding Gates
自助登机门
Lufthansa now has “self-boarding” turnstiles at some of its gates at Frankfurt and Munich airports，these gates greatly speed up the boarding process.
德国汉莎航空公司在法兰克福和慕尼黑机场分别新建了一些“自助登机”转门。这些自助登机门大大提高了登机速度。
Express Baggage Check-in / Automated Luggage Tracking
快速行李登记/自动化行李跟踪
Under a program developed by the airlines called “Bags-Ready-To-Go,” passengers can print out their own bag tags at the same time they get their boarding pass from either their computer or an airport kiosk then they can drop off their luggage at a counter or designated bag-drop location.
机场提供了一项名为“行李即取走”的服务，即乘客可在打印登记证的同时打印他们的行李标签，之后乘客可将行李直接送到柜台或者指定的行李接收处。
Roving Airport Agents
可随时提供服务的机场代理人
Hundreds of crimson-jacketed agents are now roaming concourses in New York, Atlanta and other major airports. The agents will carry hand-held electronic devices that can print boarding passes, and issue vouchers and passes to airport clubs.
现在，有几百名身着红色制服的代理人游走在纽约、亚特拉大和其他主要机场。这些代理人随身携带手提式电子设备，这些设备可打印登记证、凭证并发送到机场俱乐部。
Inflight Internet Access
飞行过程中的互联网服务
Airlines are racing to wire their planes with internet capability, and airlines that are now offering this include American, Delta, US Airways, Alaska, Air Tran, and Virgin America.
航空公司正在将它们的飞机进行联网，目前提供互联网服务的航空公司包括：美国航空公司、达美航空、全美航空、阿拉斯加航空、穿越航空以及维珍航空。
Express Customs Clearance
快速通关
A new “ pilot program” from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection allows pre-approved, so called “low-risk travelers” expedited clearance when they arrive in the U.S.
美国海关和边境保护局新近出台一项名为“飞行员程序”的措施，允许那些先前已得到核准的所谓“低风险旅行者”在到达美国时快速通关。
Airport Take-Out and Dining
机场外卖和餐饮
The airline has touch-screen menus from all the restaurants in the terminal. Just choose what to eat, swipe your credit card and in minutes your food is delivered to you.
机场有触屏式菜单连接到各个饭店的终端。你只需选择要点的食物，刷一下信用卡，数分钟内你点的食物就会送到你手中。
