Air travel system
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1. An air travel system characterised by the following steps:
- (i) meeting with a passenger holding a flight reservation and ticket confirmation prior to a flight at a confirmed address of the passenger remote from the airport to attend to pre-flight procedures;
(ii) confirming at that meeting the identity of the passenger by reference to photographic identification (photo ID) evidence;
(iii) confirming details of the passenger'"'"'s ticket confirmation;
(iv) pursuing all required document and security profiling procedures;
(v) collecting all items of luggage (other than hand luggage) from the passenger;
(vi) issuing a preliminary boarding pass;
(vii) providing the passenger with a receipt for items of luggage collected; and
(viii) transporting the luggage in a secure manner to the airport of departure for further checking prior to loading onto the aircraft on which the passenger is travelling.
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An air travel system in which pre-flight check-in of passengers and luggage items are conducted at passenger confirmed addresses remote from the airport of departure. All relevant luggage items are collected during the course of the pre-flight check-in and transported in secure vehicles to the airport of departure for security checks to be made. Each passenger for whom luggage items are collected receives a preliminary boarding pass including inter alia flight details, the preliminary boarding pass being exchanged with a confirmed boarding pass airside of the airport of departure.
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1. An air travel system characterised by the following steps:
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(i) meeting with a passenger holding a flight reservation and ticket confirmation prior to a flight at a confirmed address of the passenger remote from the airport to attend to pre-flight procedures;
(ii) confirming at that meeting the identity of the passenger by reference to photographic identification (photo ID) evidence;
(iii) confirming details of the passenger'"'"'s ticket confirmation;
(iv) pursuing all required document and security profiling procedures;
(v) collecting all items of luggage (other than hand luggage) from the passenger;
(vi) issuing a preliminary boarding pass;
(vii) providing the passenger with a receipt for items of luggage collected; and
(viii) transporting the luggage in a secure manner to the airport of departure for further checking prior to loading onto the aircraft on which the passenger is travelling. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10)
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8. An air travel system in which pre-flight check-in of passengers and luggage items are conducted at passenger confirmed addresses remote from the airport of departure, all relevant luggage items being collected during the course of pre-flight check-in and transported in secure vehicles to the airport of departure for security checks to be made, each passenger for whom luggage items are collected receiving a preliminary boarding pass including inter alia flight details, the preliminary boarding pass being exchanged with a confirmed boarding pass airside of the airport of departure.
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9. An air travel system in which a representative of the system operator meets with flight passengers at locations remote from the airport of departure to complete inter alia identity and security checks and to collect all items of luggage other than hand luggage for secure transportation by the system operator to the airport of departure each item of luggage being tagged to show inter alia the identity of the passenger and the passenger being provided with a preliminary boarding pass which includes inter alia personal details of the passenger and which is exchanged airside at the airport of departure with a confirmed boarding pass.
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11. An air travel system substantially as herein described.
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