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Low cost airline's  mobile site lets you book a flight, view your bookings, do online check-ins and check flight status. Based in Malaysia, AirAsia flies throughout Asia and to Australia and the UK.

Timetable, Flight Status, Frequent Flyer Balance. Set up email SMS or pager notiication of delays for a specific flight.

Air Tran Airways (airtran.com) is a US low-fare airline. The site, which is not mobile optimized, features schedules, flight status, seat selection and check in.

Timetables, gate assignment and special offers

Schedules, flight status, frequent flyer balance,

Check in for your flight, Timetable, trip planner, flight status, hotel reservations

British Airways redesiged mobile site offers real-time arrival and departure information and mobile flight check in..

Timetable, flight status

Timetable, flight status, my itineraries

140-Feb-2013: Only works in iPhone and Android browsers, hangs on start screen in others.

Flight Schedules, Flight Status. The site is not optimized for mobile devices.

Spanish airline's mobile site has schedules,arrivals and departures, online check-in and mobile boarding passes using QR codes.  Nice site but the browser detection is seriously broken with many mobiles getting either the full site or an error message. It's OK in Opera Mini.  Source: Mobility.mobi

Timetables, Check In, flight status. lounge facilities, frequent flyer balance

The discount US airline's mobile web site has flight status, weather alerts and listings of in-flight entertainment. snacks and drinks.

Jetstar Airways is a discount airline serving Australia, Asia and Hawaii.  There mobile site provides fares, real time arrival and departure information and schedules. It also offers something I haven't seen before, passengers can change reservations using the mobile site. Source: GoMo News

Timetables, flight status, flight booking and manage reservations

Malaysia Airlines' new mobile site offers booking, check in, flight status, timetables, click to call contact numbers and something I haven't seen before on a mobile airline site, lost luggage tracking. Source: Travel Blackboard via Mobility.mobi

Arrival and departure times, flight schedules, Mabuhay Miles information, news,  promotions, ticket office addresses and phone numbers which are NOT click to call enabled!!  Source Mobility.mobi

Qantas' international and domestic time table. Online check in for domestic flights, flight status and frequent flier account access.

Mobile site of S7, Russia's largest domestic airline lets you view flight status and schedules, make reservations, buy tickets and check in online. Choice of Russian, English or German user interfaces.

Timetables, flight status and my favorite mobile air travel feature, online check-in for the Scandinavian airline.

South African Airways (SAA) new mobile site has schedules, directions to airport lounges, live flight arrival and departure information, a currency converter and weather forecasts for arrival cities. Source: Mobility.mobi

Flight information, set up flight delay alerts. Usability hampered by a rather clumsy interface. You must type in destination and arrival cities. Valid cities are sometimes not recognized.

One of my readers suggested I take a look at Southwest Airline's new mobile site.  Back in 2006, Southwest was one of the first airlines to offer mobile web based online check in.  Until recently however, check in was about the only thing you could do on the Southwest site.

That's all changed with the latest redesign. The new Southwest site not only lets you check in but also offers mobile users a full range of online services including flight booking using a credit card, checking flight status and interactive schedules. Members of Rapid Rewards, Southwest's frequent flier program, can  login to their MySouthwest account.using their mobile device to view scheduled trips and check their rewards status.

Online check in works as before and is quite easy. You enter your flight confirmation number and name and that's it, you're checked in. You do still need to stop at en eTicket kiosk at the airport to print your boarding pass.

In this regard Southwest is a bit behind the curve as several airlines including American, Continental, Lufthansa, SAS and Air Canada are now sending electronic boarding passes encoded as Bar Coded Boarding Pass (BCBP) 2D barcodes to mobile users who can simply scan their phone screens at the security checkpoint and gate. With BCBP scanners scheduled to be rolled out to security checkpoints at all US airports next year I'm hoping the Southwest will be quick to adopt this time saving technology too.

The new site has two variants.  There is a slick iPhone specific one and a more generic mobile view for other devices.  The two versions, which are served from the same URL have exactlly the same functionality, differing only in their level of eye candy. I'm running Cyanogen's 4.0.4 ROM on my Google Ion Android phone which has a modified browser  that lets you change the user agent header to impersonate an iPhone.  The iPhone version of the Southwest site seems to work perfectly in the Android browser, although users of un-modified Android phones will not see it. I wish more web designers would wake up to the fact that the rendering and CSS and JavaScript support of the Android browser is almost identical to that of the iPhone and that most iPhone web apps will work well and look good on Android phones.

Flight schedules, live arrival information, baggage tracking, special promotions and information about the cites TAP Portugal serves including weather, attractions, restaurants, hotels and shopping. Source Oh! Mobile Directory

Russia's second largest airline (after Aeroflot) has extensive service within the Russian Federation as well as international flights to the US, Europe and Asia. The mobile site offers online check-in, services for members of Transaero's frequent flier program, information about the airline's routes and history and contact numbers, which are not click-to-call unfortunately.

Swiss International Airlines' very comprehensive mobile site has timetables, real-time arrival and departure information, booking using your stored credit card number or entering new CC details, frequent flyer status, world wide click to call phone numbers and free airliner wallpaper downloads. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Flight status, flight availability, frequent flyer mileage, set up email alerts for a flight. If you register with your credit card information on at the United web site at www.united.com you can book flights using WAP. WAP1 version of the site is optimized for Openwave browsers, usability only fair on other browsers.

Virgin Australia Airlines operates between Australian and international destinations in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. The airline's mobile site offers flight booking, booking changes online and online check in using a 2D bar code boarding pass delivered to the phone.

US Airways has updated their mobile site to include making reservations as well as an interactive timetable and real-time flight status.

Online schedules, seat availability and click to call contact numbers for Barcelona based Vueling Airlines, a low cost airline offering cheap flights among European capitals. The site has invalid markup that will prevent it from working in some browsers and is quite slow.

Mobile online check in for Canada's WestJet.  Source: Anything Geospatial via Mobility.mobi