Comments on: Super-fast on-line bag check

By: tideliar

tideliar — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:55:04 +0000

Same thing happened to me at Heathrow on Saturday… wankers. Thankfully my mum made sure I was at the airport three-and-a-half hours fucking early so she could beat the rushhour traffic…

By: Brennig Jones

Brennig Jones — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:22:30 +0000

I’m with Lin. When I do the weekend hops to Spain to see my daughter my small rucksack is pressed in to service. No hold luggage, walk on, walk off.

By: Lin

Lin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:52:10 +0000

Angry, don’t be silly….the expense of a car indeed. Express train for me then taxi waiting at the other end and no parking fees at all. In fact I now travel with backpack only and hence no lost luggage and no bringing back unworn clothes either.

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:48:47 +0000

azur – I did not know that. Surely it can’t be long before BMI drop that moniker also.

Lin – Did you find the long stay horse and cart park OK?

Keef – I understand it is a purely ’seat allocation’ time saver, plus those without bags to check can go straight through. It doesn’t help me though, so I don’t care.

vamos666 – What an excellent idea. You should set up a website offering such packages.

By: vamos666

vamos666 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:15:42 +0000

Next year me n’ Mrs Vamos are taking this technology thing a step further and having a ‘virtual Holiday’, 2 weeks sat in front of a looping youtube video of a beach in the Bahamas while burning £20 notes and arguing. Should save a fortune and no airport queues!

By: Keef

Keef — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:09:05 +0000

How actually does online check in save time? all it does is save the 30 seconds it takes to tell the checker-in how many bags you have, They still have to weigh them, ask whether Al-Qaeda have helped you pack, attach the sticky labels in a futile attempt to stop them being lost, load them on the conveyor, pick them back up and put them back on after they fall off the conveyor, x-ray them, force them open while the security goons ruffle through your undies, damage the lock whilst trying to close them, stamp on them a couple of times, chuck them onto a truck, kick them around the tarmac and finally put them onto the plane (hopefully the right one).
So how does online check-in save time again, No Thanks, I’ll stick with being one of the Amish.

By: Lin

Lin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:42:07 +0000

I am an avid Amish traveller. Sooo pleased that all you techno heads follow their flock and leave me time for my duty free and bar shopping. Many thanks

By: azur

azur — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:29:45 +0000

BA have stopped calling theirs “Fast” for this very reason. I too was a leader in adopting this on-line check-in stuff, only to find that the rest of the world could do it too – and don’t get me going on the “Speedy Boarding” option used by EasyJet – everyone does that too!