Here’s another Airline company that is adapting to our technology world. We’ve seen recently how United Airlines have started to offer iPod and iPhone support for their top transatlantic customers. Delta is taking one more step into the future as they are going to allow domestic air travelers departing from New York La Guardia airport to board using their virtual boarding passes stored in their smartphones instead of regular paper boarding passes.

Isn’t that cool? All you need is a digital boarding pass downloaded from Delta and stored in your phone’s memory, an ID to match the person you took the cell phone from and you’re going to be scanned in. All aboard! Oh my, but is it safe? Seriously speaking, with all the safety that’s in place when it comes to flying in the USA, I am sure safety measures will be in place to prevent any hacking or misuse of this new system. After all Continental Airlines and Northwest have started using similar procedures earlier this year.

And this system might just save some trees as we will not be printing that many paper boarding passes. Although pollution from manufacturing those smartphones needed would eventually kill some of the trees we saved before. Well eventually this way of boarding planes will be available in more and more airports around the world in the future.