ANA (All Nippon Airways) last week moved its main domestic hub operation at Tokyo Haneda Airport to the new Terminal 2 which uses the existing railway station connecting Haneda to central Tokyo in less than 30 minutes. A monorail station will open soon beneath the terminal offering an even quicker, 20 minute, connection. To speed the check-in process, the airline has installed 52 self-operating machines that allow passengers to print boarding passes via their mobile. This reduces check-in time to just eight seconds, compared with the manual system which takes two minutes on average. An interesting innovation for arriving passengers is the use of right-side departing bridges at some gates. ANA can now attach three boarding bridges ” two on the left and one on the right ” to a 747 (seating 569 passengers in a domestic configuration ” more than the suggested 550 for the Airbus A380).
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