Facebook Messenger: Now get boarding pass, flight details on the app

Facebook Messenger has announced a tie up with the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines where the air travellers will also receive boarding pass.

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Facebook Messenger has announced a tie up with the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines where the air travellers will receive each and every information related to their travel on Messenger – including boarding pass.

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Once you book ticket online and choose to receive info via Messenger on the KLM website, the airline will send you itinerary, boarding pass, check-in confirmation and flight status through the app, The Verge reported.

With digital boarding pass, passengers will be able to get through security and onto their flight.

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Passengers will also be able to chat with KLM support staff right inside the Messenger.

“This is one that I’ve been personally eager to solve for a while – removing stress and complication from air travel,” David Marcus, who leads the Messenger team, was quoted as saying.

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KLM is Facebook’s “first airline partner,” and Facebook may go for more such partners, he added.