OREANDA-NEWS.  April 17, 2013. Effective as of summer 2013 schedule Ukraine International Airlines extended web check-in opportunities for passengers departing from the new points of UIA route network – Baku, Yerevan, St. Petersburg, Prague, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, and Moscow (Sheremetyevo International airport). Web check-in service is also available for passengers departing from the cities of Ukraine – Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Odessa – on UIA new direct international flights to Tel Aviv, as well as on flights en route Kharkov – Kiev.

A UIA passenger wishing to take advantage of web check-in, should visit UIA website www.flyUIA.com , enter his family name, e-ticket number or Booking Reference. As soon as web check-in procedure is completed, a passenger receives an email with his boarding pass attached. An e-boarding pass containing a special bar code is to be printed and presented by a passenger at the gate. This document is equivalent to an ordinary boarding pass issued at a check-in counter at the airport.

Web check-in opens 23 hours and closes 2 hours prior to scheduled departure time. The IT service allows checking-in a group of up to 9 passengers with a single booking.

Web check-in is not available for passengers travelling with an infant under the age of 2, unaccompanied minors; passengers requiring special assistance, and groups of over 10 passengers.

In case a passenger has baggage to be checked-in he can also benefit from web check-in service. Arriving at the airport a passenger should proceed to the drop-off point to check-in his baggage and, thus, save 15 – 30 minutes of his precious time. Deadline for baggage drop-off corresponds to check-in deadline of your flight – 40 minutes prior to scheduled departure. Therefore passengers are advised to check the check-in deadlines at the airports of departure.

“Having introduced the web check-in service, we provided our passengers with an opportunity to significantly reduce time spent at the airport of departure and to avoid long wait. Having checked-in on the Internet and having a printed boarding pass in the pocket, passengers can proceed directly to aviation security, passport and customs control, board the aircraft accordingly, and avoid queuing at the airport, – noted Vladimir Tepikin, UIA Information Technology Director. – UIA plans to further extend web check-in opportunities by introducing a system allowing emailing passengers notifications as soon as check-in for their flight is open. The next step is to provide passengers with an opportunity to check-in online using cell phones and receive their boarding passes on the mobile devices”.

Passengers can also make their airport formalities easier and smoother by using special RFID cards to be presented at passport and customs control.