<p>An air travel system in which pre-flight check-in of passengers and luggage items are conducted at passenger confirmed addresses remote from the airport of departure. All relevant luggage items are collected during the course of the pre-flight check-in and transported in secure vehicles to the airport of departure for security checks to be made. Each passenger for whom luggage items are collected receives a preliminary boarding pass including inter alia flight details, the preliminary boarding pass being exchanged with a confirmed boarding pass airside of the airport of departure.</p>
