OREANDA-NEWS. November 19, 2009. Commencing November 9, 2009 Ukraine International Airlines have added some new destinations on the airline’s web-site to the list of flights that allow online check-in for passengers with electronic tickets. The online check-in service allows passengers to considerably cut their queuing time at the airport.

Passengers departing from Kiev International Airport “Borispol” may now check-in at the airline’s web-site for UIA scheduled flights Kiev-Amsterdam, Kiev-Paris and Kiev-Helsinki. The list of destinations available for self-check-in on the UIA web-site also includes the Lisbon-Kiev flight.

Ukraine International Airlines became the first airline in Ukraine to offer its passengers this new check-in online service. As of today the service is available for UIA scheduled flights departing from Kiev to Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Lisbon, Milan, Nice, Paris, Rome, Tbilisi, Vienna and Zurich, as well as the Airline’s internal flights departing from Kiev to Lvov and Simferopol. UIA passengers may also check-in online for flights departing to Kiev from Brussels, Frankfurt, Lisbon and Zurich.

A passenger who wants to choose a seat on the airplane and to check-in for the flight, goes to the UIA web-site, identifies himself/herself by their surname, booking code, electronic ticket number or by Panorama Club frequent flyer card. Having chosen the seat the passenger then receives a boarding pass, containing a special bar-code, emailed to his address and prints it out. This boarding pass is the equivalent of the traditional boarding pass issued at the check-in desk at the airport.

Passengers traveling with check-in baggage can also check-in online and on arrival at the airport drop-off their baggage at the business-class check-in desk, thus saving time.

Check-in online opens 23 hours before the scheduled flight departure and closes when the check-in desk starts to work at the airport – 2 hours before departure.

In the near future Ukraine International Airlines plan to complete introduction of the web check-in service for all UIA flights departing from Kiev International Airport “Borispol”, including destinations demanding passport data insert – these data may be entered by the passengers into the system before arriving at the airport.