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Quoting timz (Thread starter): Did your ticket include the ride from the downtown terminal to the airport? |
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 2): TWA had their own terminals in London |
Quoting rwy04lga (Reply 1): AFAIK, it was just a ticketing center for a bunch of airlines. There was a private bus company that served the various airports. I don't think your ticket included that ride or if the luggage was tagged prior to the bus leaving the ticketing center. That was probably done at the airport. I don't know for a fact, though. |
Quoting timz (Thread starter): San Francisco's was on the SE corner of O'Farrell and Taylor I think. |
Quoting type-rated (Reply 9): That building exterior looked kind of art deco in design. What were the years of operation and what is there now? |
Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 10): So we went backward in service :/ |
Quoting viscount630 (Reply 13): Many UK airline timetables included town terminal check-in times and there was usually a small charge for the bus or, from Victoria, train, to the airport. Although baggage was usually checked all the way through, in early years an outbound customs check used to require passengers to identify their baggage and get customs clearance with it before proceeding to the departure lounge. |
Quoting maxpower1954 (Reply 11): 1953 to 1985. Sold to developers for upscale apartment complex. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/14/ny....html |
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 2): I forget whether you had to pay a separate fare for the bus |
Quoting LOWS (Reply 17): OS still offers this in Vienna. If you are taking the City-Airport-Train, you can check in and drop your bags there. They get taken out to the airport with the train. |
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Quoting goosebayguy (Reply 19): BA have a terminal at Victoria rail station for use when flying from Gatwick. You can check in and hop on a train. They take your cases. You have to pay for the rail ticket yourself though. |
Quoting eljonno (Reply 22): Are there any trip reports that explain how it all worked in a bit more detail? |
Quoting jumpjets (Reply 26): Wasn't there something similar at Paddington Station [London] when the Heathrow express train service opened. I think you checked in and left your luggage - but still paid your own train fare. |
Quoting PROSA (Reply 28): This is the Corinthian, the very expensive apartment building on the site of Manhattan's East Side Airlines Terminal: |
Quoting sierra3tango (Reply 14): BEA started out with a separate double decker (+baggage trailer) from Cromwell Road for each flight outbound, which was a bit of joke as the bus could carry more PAX than a Viscount! From memory the baggage trailer was disconnected near the terminal and then the PAX were offloaded at the terminal to find their way to the gate. Subsequently they gave up that theory and just had a regular bus (every 10 or 15 mins?) to LHR, at that point my memory fails me as to whether you could check in at the terminal or the airport. |
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 32): |
Quoting dstc47 (Reply 16): The entirely separate BOAC bus went to the former Imperial Airways Building in Victoria, just across from the Victoria Coach Station and it continued for many years after the merger of BEA and BOAC. This building is now the National Audit Office. Never used that one. |
Quoting USAirALB (Reply 5): CX had this in HKG in the 90s. Don't know if it still exists. Was called "CityCheck". |
Quoting CODC10 (Reply 7): At HKG, most airlines have desks for the MTR Airport Express at the Hong Kong (Island) and Kowloon stations. |
Quoting e38 (Reply 6): in order for the luggage to arrive at the airport in time for the flight, there was a check-in requirement of something like 4 hours prior to the flight. That information may have been printed in the "general information" section of the [Braniff] timetable. |
Quoting type-rated (Reply 40): I remember all those ticket offices from the 60's & 70's. I think after deregulation they all started to disappear. I know in 2001 there weren't any left. Maybe someone else could say exactly when they all disappeared. |
Quoting rwy04lga (Reply 1): Quoting timz (Thread starter): Did your ticket include the ride from the downtown terminal to the airport? AFAIK, it was just a ticketing center for a bunch of airlines. There was a private bus company that served the various airports. I don't think your ticket included that ride or if the luggage was tagged prior to the bus leaving the ticketing center. That was probably done at the airport. I don't know for a fact, though. |
Quoting mozart (Reply 43): There used to be (still are?) Lufthansa check-in counters in Cologne and Stuttgart central stations where passengers checked in for flights from Frankfurt. Also terminals in Mannheim and Heidelberg existed from where a shuttle bus used to operate to Frankfurt airport. |
Quoting USAirALB (Reply 5): CX had this in HKG in the 90s. Don't know if it still exists. Was called "CityCheck". |
Quoting psa188 (Reply 41): now NYC Airporter. http://www.nycairporter.com/ |
Quoting dstc47 (Reply 47): Which sadly leaves you waiting outside in the open air near Grand Central and also uses rather small buses. |
Quoting psa188 (Reply 41): Quoting type-rated (Reply 40): I remember all those ticket offices from the 60's & 70's. I think after deregulation they all started to disappear. I know in 2001 there weren't any left. Maybe someone else could say exactly when they all disappeared. Just about every big city had an "airline row" where most of the city ticket offices/offline sales offices were located. |