{"id":222575,"date":"2025-10-13T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/222575\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:48:09","slug":"american-airlines-adds-google-wallet-support-for-boarding-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/222575\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines adds Google Wallet support for boarding passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/american-airlines.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>American Airlines has just announced that it will support Google Wallet with its boarding passes, an overdue addition for the major airline.<\/p>\n<p>Google Wallet has supported boarding passes for flights since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Android\/comments\/8ltgg4\/boarding_pass_can_now_be_saved_into_google_pay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">before it was even called<\/a> Google Wallet. Yet, some airlines essentially ignored Google\u2019s offering, even while supporting Apple Wallet. One of those airlines was American, but that\u2019s changing as of today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.aa.com\/news\/news-details\/2025\/Travel-reinvented-Where-innovation-meets-care-MKG-OTH-10\/default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a press release<\/a>, American Airlines has announced that, finally, it will offer Google Wallet support.<\/p>\n<p>The airline says:<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, Google Wallet worked around the lack of support by allowing fliers <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/01\/26\/add-to-google-wallet-trick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to take a screenshot<\/a> of their boarding pass and add it to Wallet, but that didn\u2019t always include deeper integration such as flight updates.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201creimagining the customer experience\u201d with new AI tools for finding flight itineraries as well as 3D maps showing the interior of some planes. <\/p>\n<p>More on Google Wallet:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Ben:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_557_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_871_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Airlines has just announced that it will support Google Wallet with its boarding passes, an overdue addition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-222575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}