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UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
The checks - known as the Advanced Passenger Information System - will
be mandatory from this summer, adding crucial extra minutes to the check-in process, said Travel Trade Gazette magazine. The head of regulation at holiday firm First Choice, one of Britain's biggest, said: "If it takes an extra half a minute per passenger to collect this information, you are looking at an extra three hours' check-in for a full 767. This would create an enormous number of people congreating at airports." Passengers are already told to allow three hours for checkin, causing huge queues at Heathrow and Gatwick. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/traffic/articles/10318727 |
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UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:32:58 -0400 John Taylor
wrote: : The checks - known as the Advanced Passenger Information System - will :be mandatory from this summer, adding crucial extra minutes to the :check-in process, said Travel Trade Gazette magazine. :The head of regulation at holiday firm First Choice, one of Britain's :biggest, said: "If it takes an extra half a minute per passenger to :collect this information, you are looking at an extra three hours' :check-in for a full 767. This would create an enormous number of people :congreating at airports." :Passengers are already told to allow three hours for checkin, causing :huge queues at Heathrow and Gatwick. :http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/traffic/articles/10318727 Article does not describe what information is desired nor whether the TA (or the client if booking directly) can supply the information in advance. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com |
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UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
Exactly what extra information are they looking for? I have several
transatlantic flights coming up between now and December. I do NOT relish the thought of spending six hours loitering around Heathrow or Glasgow airports before a nine or ten hour flight. Security is paramount, I do understand. But to expect passengers to tolerate six-hour check-ins? That is completely un-****ing-acceptable. |
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UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
colin. wrote:
Exactly what extra information are they looking for? I have several transatlantic flights coming up between now and December. I do NOT relish the thought of spending six hours loitering around Heathrow or Glasgow airports before a nine or ten hour flight. Security is paramount, I do understand. But to expect passengers to tolerate six-hour check-ins? That is completely un-****ing-acceptable. I guess the US isn't the only country with inane security requirements. |
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UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
mrtravelkay wrote:
colin. wrote: Exactly what extra information are they looking for? I have several transatlantic flights coming up between now and December. I do NOT relish the thought of spending six hours loitering around Heathrow or Glasgow airports before a nine or ten hour flight. Security is paramount, I do understand. But to expect passengers to tolerate six-hour check-ins? That is completely un-****ing-acceptable. I guess the US isn't the only country with inane security requirements. This IS a US security requirement. miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu |
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UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
"mrtravelkay" wrote in message ... colin. wrote: Exactly what extra information are they looking for? I have several transatlantic flights coming up between now and December. I do NOT relish the thought of spending six hours loitering around Heathrow or Glasgow airports before a nine or ten hour flight. Security is paramount, I do understand. But to expect passengers to tolerate six-hour check-ins? That is completely un-****ing-acceptable. I guess the US isn't the only country with inane security requirements. What we found extremely worrying in US airports, That is Orlando, Chicago and Washington was the behaviour of Americans to their Luggage. The number of times we saw people just leave their bags unattended and wander off was unbelievable. Security staff took no notice of unattended bags either.- unlike at UK airports. Jan |
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Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
Think its a bit of an over kill on the time. The only places needing the data are US and Canada so far and if the passport is reasonably up to date it can be just scanned to get the data. Its more likely that you'll stand for hours in US to get through immigration and bag checks than at Heathrow or Gatwick. |
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UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
colin. wrote: Exactly what extra information are they looking for? I have several transatlantic flights coming up between now and December. I do NOT relish the thought of spending six hours loitering around Heathrow or Glasgow airports before a nine or ten hour flight. Security is paramount, I do understand. But to expect passengers to tolerate six-hour check-ins? That is completely un-****ing-acceptable. That was 3 hours total added check in time, not for each passenger. Presumably the 3 hours would be divided by the number of check in queues. |
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UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
Miguel Cruz wrote: mrtravelkay wrote: colin. wrote: Exactly what extra information are they looking for? I have several transatlantic flights coming up between now and December. I do NOT relish the thought of spending six hours loitering around Heathrow or Glasgow airports before a nine or ten hour flight. Security is paramount, I do understand. But to expect passengers to tolerate six-hour check-ins? That is completely un-****ing-acceptable. I guess the US isn't the only country with inane security requirements. This IS a US security requirement. Yeah, I didn't go to the link... and the original poster didn't mention the US. |
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UK: Passengers warned of 6 Hour Check-ins at LHR,LGW
mrtravelkay wrote:
That was 3 hours total added check in time, not for each passenger. Presumably the 3 hours would be divided by the number of check in queues. That's not what was said in the article. It seemed to assume that there's only one person checking in the whole plane. |
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