Charter airline check-in goes online
Tuesday, 13 Jan, 2010
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Passengers using a new Thomas Cook Airlines online check-in service face fees if they want to select their seats.
The ‘Seats Together/Your Seat Your Choice’ starts at £12 per person return.
A priority seat selection up to 98 days before travel starts at £6 per passenger, per flight.
Extra leg room seats are available starting at £23.50.
The carrier claims to be the first charter airline in the UK to launch an internet check-in service.
Holidymakers are being given the option in addition traditional airport check-in.
Online check-in is currently available for flights from Gatwick, Stansted, Leeds/Bradford, Bristol, Belfast and Newcastle.
The service is due to be extended to the other UK airports in the near future, the company said.
Passengers log on to www.thomascookairlines.co.uk/yourflight.asp to select their seats, check-in and print boarding passes up to seven days before the flight departs.
On the day of their flight, they take their luggage to a designated bag drop before heading to passport control.
The airline’s customer services director Joanna Wild said: “We’re always looking at ways that we can give our holidaymakers more control over their booking and this innovation gives people the freedom to chose where they sit as well as making the airport experience a quick and easy one.
“We’re really proud that we’re the first to offer this to charter passengers and look forward to rolling it out to our full flying programme soon.”
by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
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