News: Clickair unveils plans to scrap check-in
Flights > News > # 1328 (20/06/2007)
Spanish budget airline Clickair claims it will become the first airline in the world to scrap check-in procedures.
Clickair's chief executive, Alex Cruz, said the new Click & Fly system would allow passengers to avoid the hassle of checking-in. He added: "We will eliminate check-in and have secured permission from the Spanish authorities, as well as enabling it from Heathrow and Gatwick from June 25."
Initially the check-in free service will be for passengers travelling with hand luggage only.
The carrier, a recently launched subsidiary of Iberia, currently flies from Heathrow to La Coruna and Valencia, as well as Gatwick to Seville. On August 1 it will be launching flights from Edinburgh to Barcelona.
Earlier this month Clickair was condemned by the Spanish airline pilots union as unsafe. Pilots criticised Clickair, along with Air Pullmantur, Vueling and Air Comet, for infringements such as low-fuel landings, takeoffs with unresolved technical glitches, improper documentation and poor regulation of the amount of time aircraft spent in the air.
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