Doha, Nov 30 (IANS/WAM): Air passengers flying out of Qatar can now have a "paperless" travel experience as the Emirates airline is now offering them the option of receiving their boarding passes on internet-enabled mobile phones.

The mobile boarding pass can be scanned and read directly at all check-in counters, airport security check points and boarding gates in Doha. The service is available to all passengers who utilise Emirates' online check-in facility out of Doha.

Passengers can log on to www.emirates.qa and can choose to receive by e-mail or SMS a web-link to their mobile boarding pass. The link displays a bar-coded boarding pass on their internet-enabled phones.

Khalid Al Serkal, Emirates' country manager for Qatar, said: "The launch of the mobile boarding pass in Qatar not only supports paperless travel and the reduction of paper waste, but also meets the demands of a new era of travellers, who seek a more sophisticated and efficient means of managing their business and leisure travel."

"The mobile boarding pass makes a small step towards reducing our environmental impact," he said.

Convenient, straight-forward and secure, customers may also use their internet-enabled mobile devices to perform a multitude of tasks like booking and managing a flight, mobile check-in, searching flight schedules and passenger status.

Passengers can even check the in-flight amenities available on a specific flight.

The Emirates airlines is based in Dubai. It operates over 2,400 flights per week to 111 cities in 62 countries across six continents. It is a subsidiary of the Emirates Group, which has over 50,000 employees, and is wholly owned by the government of Dubai.