Aviation

Check-in at your hotel before flying out from Mumbai airport

You don’t need to stand in long queues for checking in and getting your boarding pass for travelling from Mumbai airport. Instead, you can check-in along with printing your boarding passes before leaving the hotel lobby at selected three airport hotels and six hotels outside airport.

The GVK Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL), the company that administers the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) has introduced extended check-in facility that will be available at the hotels in Mumbai. The facility is introduced in three hotels in the airport and six hotels outside the airport.

Outside the airport, Sahara Star, Hyatt Regency, Taj Santacruz, ITC Maratha, Hilton Mumbai International Airport and The LaLiT will offer check-in facilities. This facility can be used by anyone who has the access to these hotels.

“Further extension to five more hotels is in progress. This will allow passengers to directly check-in to their flight and print boarding pass before leaving the hotel lobby,” said the company in a statement. The check-in from hotel is available for domestic and international travel. Terminal 1 of Mumbai airport is equipped with self service for check-in wherein passengers can generate boarding pass and bag tag from kiosk.

GVK Mumbai Airport also has equipped Terminals with various self-service check-in facilities. CSIA offers facilities like check-in kiosks, generating boarding pass through CUSS, generating Baggage tag through CUSS, and use of self-bag drop facility for a faster check-in experience. All the airlines operating out of Terminal 1 of CSIA are now on SBD (self-bag drop facility) making Terminal 1, the only terminal in the country to have a fully automated check in system.