Virgin DIY Check In

[Neoshoegal]

Leaving from Manchester this Saturday. Should I do the online check in thing? How does it work when you get to the airport? Are there less ques (sp?) to do?

 

[Girlsontour]

We did check-in on line last year : try to do it dead on 24 hrs before. Presume your flight is 10.25am? We then only had to get there at 9.25 - half an hour to the airport so we left at 8.00am (plenty of time!!) Famous last words! Stuck on M56 for what seemed like hours....kept telling daughter that we had missed the flight.....deodorant not working well......ran through the airport, just like you see on TV, and checked in at 9.18

Make sure you leave enough time - everything else worked fine - no one else was at the check-in desk (probably sat on the aircraft waiting!) - but we didn't have enough time to buy magazines or newspapers.

Will use it this year but will leave home much earlier

Think it was Desk 20 (ish) but i am sure it tells you on-line.

Have a fantastic holiday.

 

[Girlsontour]

Why are my pictures not there??

Oh, there now!

 

[tartangirl]

Hi,

I would certainly do online check-in - it does no harm and might be beneficial.

You go to a 'bag drop' line as opposed to the check-in. This line is right next to the others so you wont have a problem finding it.

The bag drop line is meant to be shorter than the check-in line but to tell you the truth I didn't think there was much in it.

I reckon it is more likely to get the seats reserved online if you check-in (I may be wrong here). It also gives you an hour extra time although we still arrived 3hrs before the flight (but then we would have arrived 4hrs before if we hadn't checked in).

I would also fill in the Advanced Passenger Information online.