US travel revolution: if you have a stopover, you won't have to pick up and re-board your bags (but for now it's just a test)
When you have a stopover in the U.S., you always have to take one thing into consideration: the quite long connection times. This [...]
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When making stopovers in the USA one thing must always be kept in mind: the very long connection time. This is because upon arrival-except in a few rare cases-it is necessary not only to cross the border but also to retrieve one's luggage and check in (again): and it doesn't matter if at the departure airport our luggage was tagged all the way to the final destination, this is the process to follow.
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If you then think that in the U.S. companies have their own terminals, the hassle becomes even greater. Let's take an example: if you fly from Rome a New York with ITA Airways and then continue with Delta, you will have to switch terminal (ITA stands at T1, while Delta stands at T4), retrieve your suitcase after going through immigration, take the Airtrain and go to T4 and here board your suitcase at the check-in counters showing, of course, your boarding pass for your final destination. Nuisance this one that, however, may (the conditional is a must) have its days numbered.
The company Delta e the authorities of the country stars and stripes are testing a system such that luggage will not have to be picked up and re-boarded: as is the case in many other countries, in fact, the suitcases in transit will be automatically loaded on the next flight, so that passengers can pick them up once they arrive at their final destination.
I first tests of this new system will be carried out as early as this year in the incoming flights from theTokyo-Haneda Airport but, according to many analysts, the change may soon affect connections from Seoul, London-Heathrow e Frankfurt.
This news may please not only transit passengers-who, in this way, would save dozens and dozens of minutes-but also the airlines, which could sell some Airline tickets with relatively shorter layovers Becoming, therefore, more competitive.
