Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

July 3rd - Check in is a 20th-century procedure that has no place in the modern era

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When you buy a rail ticket, that's it: you just show up at the station and board the train. Flying should be like that. But instead, passengers are obliged to check in with the airline. I think the aviation industry could do away with it.

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