China: Airports to ‘scrap boarding pass on domestic flights as early as next year’
Chinese airports may adopt an ID card check-in system as early as next year, which would streamline the process of getting on a plane by skipping the need to show a boarding pass, according to Chinese media reports. The Chinese authorities have officially approved airports to adopt the system on domestic flights, meaning passengers would be allowed go through security checks with just their ID cards, the National Business Daily quoted Zhang Baojian, the North Asia VP of the IATA as saying. The change is expected to save airlines at least 1b yuan a year, reduce the number of check-in counters by about 5,000 and cut staffing levels, the newspaper said. It could also ease overcrowding in some Chinese airports, according to the article.<br/>
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China: Airports to ‘scrap boarding pass on domestic flights as early as next year’
Chinese airports may adopt an ID card check-in system as early as next year, which would streamline the process of getting on a plane by skipping the need to show a boarding pass, according to Chinese media reports. The Chinese authorities have officially approved airports to adopt the system on domestic flights, meaning passengers would be allowed go through security checks with just their ID cards, the National Business Daily quoted Zhang Baojian, the North Asia VP of the IATA as saying. The change is expected to save airlines at least 1b yuan a year, reduce the number of check-in counters by about 5,000 and cut staffing levels, the newspaper said. It could also ease overcrowding in some Chinese airports, according to the article.<br/>
