Swissport and SITA announce world's first common-use bag drop solution
03-Mar-2009 |
Swissport International and SITA the Aviation IT specialist, announced (02-Mar-09) the deployment of the world’s first passenger bag drop solution which allows a single counter to be used to service passengers from several airlines in the same queue: a real innovation for a smarter process-flow.
Ten such counters have been created and successfully tested at Zurich Airport to the benefit of some 10 airlines - including most of the Star Alliance - whose host departure control systems are recognized by SITA’s new software solution known as PassengerBagdrop which eliminates a potential bottleneck in the passenger management process.
Manager Product and Services for the Star Alliance Anita Elste said: “We have paid a number of site visits to Zurich to watch Passenger-Bagdrop in action. Multi-airline or common-use bag drop counters are much more efficient and the average time passengers spend being processed has dropped to just under 30 seconds. Handling agents access a single standard user interface for all supported airlines.”
PassengerBagdrop also supports passengers who have already checked in online but, for whatever reason, do not have a boarding pass as it can easily re-print the original boarding pass.
Head of Swissport’s e-Services Rico Barandun said: “Swissport and SITA have just celebrated the fact that two million passengers have now used our web and kiosk check-in solutions. Swissport customers will appreciate the significance of this latest development as it will lower costs for airline customers and improve passenger throughput without increasing check-in space. We are particularly pleased to deploy it for the first time in such a prestigious location as Zurich airport.”
SITA Senior Vice President for Applications Solutions Bruno Frentzel said: “This is a real innovation for a smarter process flow at airports. PassengerBagdrop is an important development in SITA’s Baggage Portfolio. We intend to innovate further in the near future with PassengerBagdrop Off-Airport. This will be specifically designed for logistics companies to allow them to provide departing airline passengers with basic flight check-in and a secured baggage pick-up from off-airport locations such as hotels.” (c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 03-Mar-09
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Swissport and SITA announce world's first common-use bag drop solution 
