New bag drop system at Visby Airport. Photo: Swedavia
New bag drop system at Visby Airport. Photo: Swedavia

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Debut of modern bag drop system at Visby Airport – automated solutions for every step of the passenger’s journey

Now it will be even easier to fly from Visby Airport. On Wednesday, February 20, a new, modern and integrated bag drop system will be inaugurated at the airport. Visby Airport will thus be one of the first airports in the Nordic region to offer a fully integrated bag drop system.

 Using the automated bag drop system with no counters, passengers check in at home and have their boarding card sent to their mobile phone or they can check in at the airport’s automated check-in machines. Staff will be on hand then to provide help if necessary

“With this modern, innovative bag drop service, Visby Airport will be an even smoother and more efficient airport. It is gratifying that we can now offer automated solutions for every step of our passengers’ journey at the airport. This investment is an important part of the development work to modernise Visby Airport in preparation for the needs of the future. All development takes place in close collaboration with airlines and other partners at the airport, all to make the travel experience as efficient as possible,” says Gunnar Jonasson, airport director at Visby Airport.

The aim of Swedavia’s self-service concepts, such as automated bag drop, automated check-in machines and automated entry gates at the security checkpoint and at the gates is to make travel easier for passengers through smoother flows and fewer queues at the airport. When the airport group develops its airports, the focus is on automation and digitisation since new technology accounts for a large share of its innovative solutions.

Today more than 80 per cent of passengers use some form of self-service overall at Swedavia’s airports. Self-service solutions are found across Sweden, from Malmö Airport in the south to Kiruna Airport in the north.

One of Swedavia’s sustainability targets is for the company’s operations – at all ten airports – to be fossil-free by 2020 at the latest. At Visby Airport, this target was reached in June last year, thus making it the second Swedavia airport to reach the target after Ronneby Airport, which became completely fossil-free in the autumn of 2016.

For further information, please contact Swedavia’s press office at +46 (0)10-109 01 00 or press@swedavia.se 

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Swedavia is a State-owned group that owns, operates and develops ten airports across Sweden. Our role is to create the access Sweden needs to facilitate travel, business and meetings – in Sweden, in Europe and around the world. Safe, satisfied passengers are the foundation of our business. Swedavia is a world leader in developing airports with the least possible environmental impact. The Group has revenue of over 5.7 billion Swedish kronor and some 3,100 employees.

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