Passengers departing San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO) can examine their baggage within the airport’s car parking zone due to its distant airline check-in service, which the airport launched Nov. 19.
This service is presently solely accessible for flyers on home flights on choose airways — particularly Alaska Airways, American Airways, Delta Air Traces and JetBlue — from 4 a.m. to eight p.m. day by day. Baggage have to be checked a minimum of 90 minutes forward of the scheduled departure time.
This service is complimentary, however airline baggage charges nonetheless apply outdoors as they’d when checking baggage curbside or inside on the check-in desk. Service is accessible in two SFO areas, together with ParkRight — a long-term parking storage on stage 5. Vacationers can e book on-line a minimum of two hours upfront to make use of this lot or pay upon entry. For Thanksgiving journey from Nov. 25 to Dec.1, the car parking zone is restricted to these with reservations.
Moreover, vacationers can entry the distant airline check-in service on stage one of many rental automobile middle. Every location connects to the terminals through the AirTrain.
SFO will broaden this service to incorporate passengers flying on Southwest Airways and United Airways early subsequent month, in response to reporting by SFGate.
That is the first-of-its-kind service at a U.S. airport, though a number of airports and airways have applied related companies. At Denver Worldwide Airport (DEN), Clear Plus members can examine their baggage at door 600, proper outdoors the entry to the west safety checkpoint on stage 6.
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Airways have additionally applied their very own companies at choose airports, together with United’s Touchless ID bag drop shortcut in any respect home United hubs; eligible United flyers can biometrically examine their bag(s) with out having to indicate their boarding cross or driver’s license. This shortcut permits passengers to examine their baggage by scanning their boarding passes earlier than an agent prints their bag tags, bypassing the standard two-step check-in course of.
Delta passengers may also take part in touchless bag drop at choose airports, together with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL), Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX), John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) and LaGuardia Airport (LGA).
Earlier this yr, Alaska Airways applied two new automated bag drop machines at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA) and SFO. The automated bag drop scans vacationers’ bag tags to retrieve their reservations earlier than scanning passengers’ IDs, that are matched to a facial scan.
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