{"id":1182,"date":"2011-03-10T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2011-03-10T02:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:10:00","slug":"next-generation-check-in-regional-implementation-begins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/03\/next-generation-check-in-regional-implementation-begins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Generation Check-In Regional Implementation Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travmedia.com\/images\/db\/320467.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 246px;\" src=\"http:\/\/travmedia.com\/images\/db\/320467.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Qantas today announced that Next Generation Check-in technology has started rolling out across its regional network.<\/p>\n<p>Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said this was a significant milestone in the program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next Generation Check-in provides our customers with a smarter, faster check-in experience and we&#8217;re excited to be delivering this technology for customers in our regional ports,&#8221; said Mr Joyce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When our customers told us that queuing was a point of pain we responded. Next Generation Check-in has been successfully implemented in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne and has dramatically reduced domestic check-in times for customers allowing them to move through the check-in area with speed and ease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twenty-one regional airports, including sixteen QantasLink ports, will receive Next Generation Check-in technology over the next four months,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Albury, Rockhampton, Karratha, Broome, Coffs Harbour and Mackay are the first ports to benefit from the introduction of Q Card Reader technology, and will be shortly followed by Emerald, Hobart, Kalgoorlie, Port Hedland and Port Macquarie.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Joyce said Platinum, Gold and Silver Frequent Flyers and Qantas Club members will be checked in within seconds with one touch of their Qantas card on the Q Card Readers.<\/p>\n<p>Q Card Readers will also be installed in Gladstone, Port Macquarie, Tamworth, Alice Springs, Newman, Wagga Wagga, Townsville, Launceston, Paraburdoo, Darwin and Cairns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From May, Q Bag technology will also be introduced across the regional network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Q Bag Tag is a cutting edge innovation and Qantas is proud to be the first airline to introduce this world-leading technology to our customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Q Bag Tag automatically links customers&#8217; luggage with their flight details when scanned by Qantas Customer Service staff.<\/p>\n<p>Next Generation Check-in will be progressively introduced to Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra throughout 2011. The program is scheduled for completion in the second half of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>An online demonstration providing a step-by-step guide to Next Generation Check-in is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qantas.com\/nextgenerationcheckin\">qantas.com\/nextgenerationcheckin<\/a><br \/>Note: For breaking Qantas news via Twitter, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/qantasmedia\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/qantasmedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas today announced that Next Generation Check-in technology has started rolling out across its regional network. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said this was a significant milestone in the program. &#8220;Next Generation Check-in provides our customers with a smarter, faster check-in experience and we&#8217;re excited to be delivering this technology for customers in our regional ports,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-qantas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}