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(03/08/23)
Air France customers now have the option
of dropping-off and checking-in their baggage at locations in and
around Paris, prior to arriving at the airport.
The service has been launched in partnership with Alltheway, an
innovative start-up specializing in travel and mobility.
The bag drop service is
already available at eight locations, including the following five Accor
hotels: Novotel Tour
Eiffel, Mercure Tour Eiffel, Novotel Les Halles, Mercure
Montparnasse and Pullman Bercy; as well as the Paris
Expo Porte de Versailles, Villepinte Exhibition Centre and the
Palais des Congrès convention centre.
Air France A220-300 reg: F-HZUA. Picture by Steven Howard of TravelNewsAsia.com
Alltheway takes the baggage and
delivers it directly to the airline’s check-in desk at the
airport. Travellers can even track
their bags to the airport and subsequently to their destination
using the “follow my bag” tool in the Air France app.
The service is available from 30 hours up to 4 hours before
the flight’s departure, depending on the bag drop
location, and costs 25 euros for one bag, then 10 euros per
additional bag.
It is available on all flights operated by Air
France departing from Paris-Charles de Gaulle, with the exception
of flights to Tel Aviv, Israel.
Already available in many other countries, bag
drop services such as the above, transform the overall air travel
experience by removing a lot of the stress associated with
carrying often large and heavy bags all the way to the airport.
It also allows travellers to better enjoy the city
on the day of their departure, without worrying about hotel
check-out times or having to go back to the hotel to pick up their
luggage, and also makes the airport experience so much more
pleasant.
Air France has said that it will progressively expand
the service to more locations in the near future and is hoping to
offer a similar service for flights departing from
Paris-Orly. The airline has even hinted that it may offer a home baggage check-in and pick-up
/ delivery service in the future.
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