Patent ID: 8258926

Claim:
A method of automatically checking in passengers and their luggage, comprising: inputting electronically passenger data into an automatic check-in terminal by a passenger himself; creating and outputting a boarding pass based on the passenger data by the automatic check-in terminal; creating and outputting a first luggage tag based on the passenger data by the automatic check-in terminal, wherein the first luggage tag contains, in machine-readable form, data required for generating a second luggage tag, which is an internationally standardized luggage band; attaching the first luggage tag to a luggage item by the passenger; transferring the luggage item having the first luggage tag to a conveying and sorting system; generating the second luggage tag, which is the standardized luggage band; and attaching the second luggage tag, which is the standardized luggage band, to the luggage item in addition to the first luggage tag.