Passengers departing San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO) can test their luggage within the airport’s parking zone because of its distant airline check-in service, which the airport launched Nov. 19.
This service is presently solely accessible for flyers on home flights on choose airways — particularly Alaska Airways, American Airways, Delta Air Traces and JetBlue — from 4 a.m. to eight p.m. day by day. Baggage have to be checked at the very least 90 minutes forward of the scheduled departure time.
This service is complimentary, however airline baggage charges nonetheless apply outdoors as they’d when checking luggage curbside or inside on the check-in desk. Service is out there in two SFO areas, together with ParkRight — a long-term parking storage on degree 5. Vacationers can e book on-line at the very least two hours prematurely to make use of this lot or pay upon entry. For Thanksgiving journey from Nov. 25 to Dec.1, the parking zone is restricted to these with reservations.
Moreover, vacationers can entry the distant airline check-in service on degree one of many rental automotive heart. Every location connects to the terminals by way of the AirTrain.
SFO will increase this service to incorporate passengers flying on Southwest Airways and United Airways early subsequent month, in keeping with reporting by SFGate.
That is the first-of-its-kind service at a U.S. airport, though a number of airports and airways have carried out comparable companies. At Denver Worldwide Airport (DEN), Clear Plus members can test their luggage at door 600, proper outdoors the entry to the west safety checkpoint on degree 6.
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Airways have additionally carried out their very own companies at choose airports, together with United’s Touchless ID bag drop shortcut in any respect home United hubs; eligible United flyers can biometrically test their bag(s) with out having to indicate their boarding go or driver’s license. This shortcut permits passengers to test their luggage by scanning their boarding passes earlier than an agent prints their bag tags, bypassing the standard two-step check-in course of.
Delta passengers also can take part in touchless bag drop at choose airports, together with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL), Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX), John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) and LaGuardia Airport (LGA).
Earlier this 12 months, Alaska Airways carried out two new automated bag drop machines at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA) and SFO. The automated bag drop scans vacationers’ bag tags to retrieve their reservations earlier than scanning passengers’ IDs, that are matched to a facial scan.
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