United Airlines’ announcement this week that they will allow fliers to check-in with their phones at certain airports (no paper boarding pass required) makes you wonder, is flying actually easier than it used to be?

But how much better is it that now we can check-in for our flights through a kiosk, on-line, or, increasingly, through our phones?  Remember when we actually had to wait in line at the ticket counter before each flight?  Automated check-in is really an enormous improvement that has been lost in the shuffle, with all of the other more negative things that have happened over the course of the last 10 years.

Do you agree?