{"id":34922,"date":"2005-11-16T23:28:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/11\/16\/china-southern-launches-first-chinese-computerized-automatic-check-in\/"},"modified":"2005-11-16T23:28:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T15:28:32","slug":"china-southern-launches-first-chinese-computerized-automatic-check-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/11\/16\/34922\/","title":{"rendered":"China Southern Launches First Chinese Computerized Automatic Check-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/chinasouthern_logo_120x60.gif\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\">China Southern Airlines has launched the nation's first-ever automatic check-in boarding system at the new Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Common throughout North America and Europe, China Southern's new system marks the first time any airline in China is offering self-service passenger check-in for domestic flights.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the service is only available for one domestic route &#8211; between Guangzhou and Changsha &#8211; but the airline is planning to significantly expand this service and making it available for all flights by the end of 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Four new self-service counters are available at Baiyun International Airport for Internet customers and check-in takes approximately 30 seconds for passengers to select their seat and receive their boarding cards. This new service is especially convenient for customers who don't have any luggage to check-in.<\/p>\n<p>William Ding, founder of Chinese Internet portal Netease.com, was the first customer to try out this new service in the unveiling ceremony this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Southern Airlines has launched the nation's first-ever automatic check-in boarding system at the new Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}