New Fast Check-In Process

Queues at airport check-in gates could be a thing of the past after Air New Zealand revealed a $30 million revamp of its domestic terminals. The national carrier announced changes to its check-in procedures for domestic flights around the country, beginning in Auckland.

From next week Air New Zealand will do away with the old check-in counters and introduce do-it-yourself kiosks, where passengers can print off their own bag tags and take their luggage to the bag drop themselves.

Brett from the cranky flier- blog writes about the new and improved check-in:

The idea is to keep people flowing through the system instead of creating dead-ends at ticket counters.

Passengers can check-in via mobile phone, but frequent fliers will have another option. . . RFID tags. The airline is planning on giving RFID tags to frequent fliers to stick on the back of their mobile phones (or anywhere else they so desire). They will be able to just head straight to the gate if they have no bags and scan their phone as they board. If they have a bag, they can scan it at the kiosk at check-in. A small receipt will print out for their records.

Good luck for all of you planing to fly with the new Air New Zealand .