Starting April 2014, passengers at Changi Airport will have the time taken for them to get on the plane cut by up to 50 percent, with the help of self-boarding gates.
Ground staff will still be around to help, but passengers can scan the barcode of their boarding pass on their own before they take their seats in the plane, a move that is also expected to reduce gatehold room operations — including security checks — to a mere 70 minutes.
The Changi Airport Group is said to have been conducting trials in a common gatehold room in Terminal 2 since May this year with Lufthansa.
According to Channel NewsAsia, the self-boarding gates will be progressively introduced in common gatehold rooms in all terminals, but the Group is hoping to partner with various airlines including the Singapore Airlines in the near future.
Self-service check-ins and bag drops will also be implemented and will be part of Terminal 4, which is set to complete in 2017.
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