Self-Service Luggage Check Debuts at Amsterdam Schiphol
In what Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is calling a world first, passengers on KLM flights departing Amsterdam will be able to check their own bags using self-service kiosks to check in and new luggage handling machines to weigh and label their bags.
The new trial system, launched on Friday, is designed to make the check-in process easier and, eventually, completely self-service. For the time being, airline employees still check passengers’ passports as they accept checked bags, but passport scanners that will do this without human assistance are planned next steps.
This new option for travelers further solidifies Amsterdam Schiphol as one of the world’s best, most innovative airports. Along with offering travelers the aforementioned check-in convenience found nowhere else, the transportation hub is also home to the first CitizenM Hotel, officially opened last week, and is the only airport I’ve run across that promotes its accessibility to cyclists, thanks to bike paths circling the airport property.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:44 am
We stayed at the CitizenM and it is really wonderful. Thanks for the Schiphol update - it looks like Amsterdam airport has a lot of cool things going on.
July 7th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Yay for Netherlands news! Those of us who live here like to see something besides American travel once in a while.
If anywhere is accessible to bikers, it would be the airport in this country.
July 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Glad to hear the CitizenM lives up to the hype. I am dying to see it - next time I’m in Europe, I may have to make a special trip.
And on the cycling - I was surprised to find that little factoid out - I can’t think of any other airport that makes itself so accessible to bikers…
L