American Airlines has just announced that it will support Google Wallet with its boarding passes, an overdue addition for the major airline.
Google Wallet has supported boarding passes for flights since before it was even called Google Wallet. Yet, some airlines essentially ignored Google’s offering, even while supporting Apple Wallet. One of those airlines was American, but that’s changing as of today.
In a press release, American Airlines has announced that, finally, it will offer Google Wallet support.
The airline says:
Customers using Google Wallet will now be able to add their boarding pass to their Google Wallet for easy access during their travel day. To make the travel day even more seamless, customers will also receive flight updates when adding their boarding pass to Google Wallet.
Prior to this, Google Wallet worked around the lack of support by allowing fliers to take a screenshot of their boarding pass and add it to Wallet, but that didn’t always include deeper integration such as flight updates.
This also comes as American is further upgrading Apple Wallet support with the ability to automatically add the pass to Wallet upon check-in through the American app. The broader press release where this was announced was primarily focused on “reimagining the customer experience” with new AI tools for finding flight itineraries as well as 3D maps showing the interior of some planes.
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