About 25 new machines have been installed across SIA and SilkAir's check-in rows, in the airport's biggest rollout yet of self-service check-in kiosks.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and SilkAir travellers at Changi Airport's Terminal 2 can now print their own boarding passes and luggage tags reported the Straits Times.
About 25 new machines have been installed across SIA and SilkAir's check-in rows, in the airport's biggest rollout yet of self-service check-in kiosks.
After a passenger has his passport verified, the machine prints the boarding pass and luggage tags. The passenger then tags the bags and drops them off at designated counters, before heading to immigration.
The machines, introduced about two weeks ago, are located mainly in front of the check-in counters.
SIA spokesman Nicholas Ionides said the kiosks are part of a suite of initiatives by Changi Airport to cater to passenger traffic growth.
The process takes a matter of minutes and travellers are expected to get familiar with this mode of processing given the growing use of automated check-in options in airports around the world.
This also produces cost savings for airlines. For travellers, there will be fewer manned counters and more machines at the existing terminals as well as at T4, which opens in 2017.
A spokesperson for Changi Airport said they are in talks with other carriers to expand the use of the check-in kiosks.