online check-in

Has anyone travelled with CathayPacific and used their online check in. Was
there any problems when you got to the airport. Is there a special bag
check-in area if you have already checked yourself in online.
Thanks

I've used on-line check in for domestic flights - and yes there is a special
bag tag counter.

I can not see how you could check in on line for International flights, as
the check in staff need to sight your passport - to ensure you can legally
enter the country to which you're flying.

You've always been able to complete seat allocation beforehand on Cathay
Pacific.




"kay" <ddlb*6$@removethisinternode.on.net> wrote in message
news:12m1peelldh7q81@corp.supernews.com...
> Has anyone travelled with CathayPacific and used their online check in.
> Was there any problems when you got to the airport. Is there a special bag
> check-in area if you have already checked yourself in online.
> Thanks
>

Runge <philsa@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> .air and not this group

And "this group" would be?

And *why* wouldn't "this group" be appropriate?

> "kay" <ddlb*6$@removethisinternode.on.net> a ?crit dans le message de news:
> 12m1peelldh7q81@corp.supernews.com...
> > Has anyone travelled with CathayPacific and used their online check in.
> > Was there any problems when you got to the airport. Is there a special bag
> > check-in area if you have already checked yourself in online.
> > Thanks

"Markku Gr?nroos" <kurkku@hassuserveri.fi> wrote:
>
> "Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid> kirjoitti
> viestiss?:4561f5ed$0$12480$dbd4f001@news.wanadoo.n l...
> >
> > And, in case it wasn't clear, all the "You still have to:" actions are
> > done at a *single* and *special* counter (i.e. not the normal check-in
> > counters), which, because the actions are relatively simple/fast,
> > normally won't have long queues, if any.
>
> Check in is always proceeded in no more than one counter no matter whether
> you have a pre-printed boarding card or not.

In this day and age of increased security, that's no longer always the
case.

Sometimes there are seperate drop-off points for luggage (which is
going into the hold), where passengers have to present their luggage for
security screening and subsequent check-in. I.e. in that case,
traditional check-in is two stops/'counters', one for passenger check-in
(seat-assignment/passport+visa-check/boarding-pass) and one for luggage
security-check/check-in.

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"Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid> kirjoitti
viestissä:4561fd84$0$97796$dbd4b001@news.wanadoo.n l...
> "Markku Gr?nroos" <kurkku@hassuserveri.fi> wrote:
>>
>> "Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid> kirjoitti
>> viestiss?:4561f5ed$0$12480$dbd4f001@news.wanadoo.n l...
>> >
>> > And, in case it wasn't clear, all the "You still have to:" actions are
>> > done at a *single* and *special* counter (i.e. not the normal check-in
>> > counters), which, because the actions are relatively simple/fast,
>> > normally won't have long queues, if any.
>>
>> Check in is always proceeded in no more than one counter no matter
>> whether
>> you have a pre-printed boarding card or not.
>
> In this day and age of increased security, that's no longer always the
> case.
>
Well, yes it is. Naturally some gadgets can brake down and hence check in
may take place in more than one booth.

> Sometimes there are seperate drop-off points for luggage (which is
> going into the hold), where passengers have to present their luggage for

The only design for this I have ever seen anywhere is the luggage which
takes unconventional dimensions and therefore requires specific handling
lines.


> security screening and subsequent check-in. I.e. in that case,

These are two and different processes even if the latter is dependent on the
first mentioned one.


> traditional check-in is two stops/'counters', one for passenger check-in
> (seat-assignment/passport+visa-check/boarding-pass) and one for luggage
> security-check/check-in.
>
Passengers are checked in at one counter.

A Mate wrote:

> I can not see how you could check in on line for International flights, as
> the check in staff need to sight your passport - to ensure you can legally
> enter the country to which you're flying.

As others have posted, you're wrong. I check in online with KLM from
the UK to the Netherlands and back every time. The passport check is
carried out at the gate (and at the baggage drop desk if I check a bag
in, which mostly I do[1]).

[1] Why check in online, then? Two reasons; advance seat selection
(and KLM will let you select exit seats in advance, which is very nice)
and because the flights I use regularly overbook, and a check-in agent
once told me he often turns people away but has never turned someone
away that checked in online.

Neil

Following up to Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> :

>> There is a prevalent misunderstanding about the travel newsgroups.
>> They were intended to be created as runge.travel.* but due to a typo
>> by a news admin, they were created as .*.
>>
>> With that background knowledge, you can more readily understand why
>> runge feels a sense of ownership.
>
> I was probably one of them there News Admins, so my sincere apologies
>to Mr. Runge. Mea culpa. mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!

LOL!
--
Tim C.

"Markku Gr?nroos" <kurkku@hassuserveri.fi> wrote:
>
> "Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid> kirjoitti

[Severely snipping because there no longer is any point.]

> > The process *I* am describing is more or less the reverse, first
> > passenger check-in and then (and a seperate counter) hold-luggage
> > inspection/check-in/drop-off.
> >
> Name one airport in which routines are arranged like this.

For *example* Schiphol airport ("Amsterdam").

And as I said in my very first response (on *this* subject): These are
*sometimes* used for (increased) *security* reasons, i.e. they are *not*
"routines", but *exceptions* to the general routines:

> > Check in is always proceeded in no more than one counter no matter
> > whether you have a pre-printed boarding card or not.
>
> In this day and age of increased security, that's no longer always
> the case.
>
> Sometimes there are seperate drop-off points for luggage (which is
> going into the hold), where passengers have to present their luggage
> for security screening and subsequent check-in. I.e. in that case,
> traditional check-in is two stops/'counters', one for passenger
> check-in (seat-assignment/passport+visa-check/boarding-pass) and one
> for luggage security-check/check-in.