Booking Travel online is getting easier than going to the travel agents nowadays and it is much more convienient, this article describes the innovative process of ticketless flight booking. Most of us have probably been through the unpleasant process of standing in a huge queue waiting to check in for our flight abroad at some time in the past.
There always seems to be an unruly family ahead of you, full of noisy screaming kids, or the passenger who has too much weight in their case, holding the rest of us up while the problem is resolved.
I recently booked a budget flight to Lanzarote with a company called Jet2.com who offer budget flights from some UK airports and they operate an innovative ticketless check in system.
I booked my flight online and was able to reserve our seats prior to our departure through a simple computer interface, simply click on the seats available and bingo they are reserved for you. Just print off a copy of your seat confirmation details for your records.
This process was subject to a small fee and I was quite content to pay this knowing that my wife and I would be sitting next to each other on our flight, and not subject to seat selection on a first come first served basis at the airport.
What really impressed me about this system is that 28 days prior to departure you are able to check in online.
This simple process involves sending your passport details through a secure online server to the airline and when completed enables you to print off your boarding pass and flight tickets at home.
This means my wife and I can turn up at the airport about an hour and twenty minutes before our flight, drop our cases off at the drop off point and head straight for the departure lounge.
Obviously not everyone has access to a computer or may be loath to send their passport details via the Internet in case of fraud.
In these cases the standard check in procedures are still in operation and seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Personally I think this system has great potential and although I do not know how many other airlines have adopted this system at this moment in time, I think that in the future this system could be phased in by more and more airlines.
Goodbye and good riddance to the curse of miserable minutes spent in long check in queues, and hopefully welcome to the future of painless check in procedures.
