Originally Posted by
VickersVicount
with the launch of more Twilight Check-Ins at other UK airports, am I missing the attraction? So you need to travel to the airport for a second trip (finding and paying for parking) then lug over luggage and then go home again only to repeat it at eg 6am the next morning in order to avoid a check in queue? Suppose might be beneficial if you were overnighting in an onsite airport hotel.
Not everyone lives just down the road from the Airport they are flying from so a lot will stay in a hotel the night before, usually on site.
The benefits are more for the Airports and ground handlers. It means less people queueing to check bags in, less bags having to be processed through security x-rays and along congested baggage belts, less rush for the baggage sorters to deal with.
For passengers it can mean not needing to get up so early and avoiding check-in queues. It also means less queuing time for the people that are dropping bags off in the morning.
If as a random figure, 15 passengers + 15 bags per flight do twilight check-in, with say 8 early flights going that's 120 less people to deal with.