Alaska Airlines Unveils Airport of the Future at Los Angeles International Airport.Business Editors/Travel Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2003 Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines, (NYSE: ALK) is an airline based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates hubs at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Portland International Airport. today unveiled a new high-tech check-in counter at Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX , giving customers a glimpse of the future of air travel. The new system does away with the old bottleneck A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU at the ticket counter and allows passengers to flow through check-in in two simple steps. "By splitting the check-in process into two steps and using smart kiosks, we are able to process more customers at a time, consequently eliminating lines and wait times," said Ed White, Alaska's vice president of ground operations. Alaska tested the system over the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel period. "We handled more than 5,500 passengers at LAX on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving with little or no lines and minimal wait times," White said. The system is a two-step process, versus the customary one-line-serves-all. At step one, customers approach a bank of automated and customer-friendly check-in kiosks where they check-in, obtain a boarding pass and indicate if they have checked luggage. Passengers traveling on international flights can also have their passports scanned at this step with new automated passport readers. At step two, customers approach a baggage podium, where an Alaska Airlines employee will scan their boarding pass and attach automatically generated bag tags Bag tags, also known as baggage tags, baggage checks or luggage tickets, have traditionally been used by airlines to route passenger luggage that is checked in to the final destination. . Customers traveling without luggage can skip this step. After that, customers can proceed directly on their way to the security checkpoint. A traditional ticket counter, staffed with Alaska Airlines employees, also is available for customers needing additional assistance. The project, part of Alaska's Airport of the Future(SM) initiative, took eight months and involved a major reconstruction of the airline's facility located at Terminal 3 at LAX. Alaska unveiled a similar two-step check-in process at Anchorage International Airport in June 2002. The airline plans to implement similar programs at airports where facilities permit. Kinetics kinetics: see dynamics. Kinetics (classical mechanics) That part of classical mechanics which deals with the relation between the motions of material bodies and the forces acting upon them. , Inc. of Lake Mary, Florida Lake Mary is a city in Seminole County, Florida, United States. The population was 11,458 at the 2000 census. As of 2006, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 14,718. [1]. Lake Mary is part of the Orlando-Kissimmee Metropolitan Area. , the leading provider of self-service technology to the airline industry, designed the self-service kiosks The self-service kiosk rose with the development of the ATM and adoption by consumers coupled with advanced technologies such as touch-screens. Self-service kiosks are hardware devices that work in combination with self service software, allowing users to perform any number of for Alaska. A technology leader itself, Alaska Airlines became the first North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. carrier to sell tickets online in 1995, and in 1999 was the first airline in the world to allow customers to check-in for flights via the Internet. Nearly 50 percent of Alaska's customers check-in electronically via the web or more than 400 Instant Travel Machines located at 80 airports. Alaska Airlines began serving LAX in 1985 with four daily departures to Seattle. The airline has grown to become the fifth largest carrier in passenger enplanements today at LAX with 41 daily nonstop HP's brand name for its fault-tolerant servers, which range in size from four CPUs to 4,000 CPUs. The NonStop line was created by Tandem Computers, which was acquired by Compaq, which later became part of HP. departures to 15 destinations in the western U.S., Alaska, Canada and Mexico. Alaska and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, together serve 80 cities in Alaska, the Lower 48, Canada and Mexico. For more news and information, visit the Alaska Airlines Newsroom on the Internet at http://newsroom.alaskaair.com. |
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