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Taking another step in the supply of services available in the airport to passengers, Nice Côte d'Azur Airport is now offering to its passengers to perform on IER kiosks, to start with Air France, the secure payment by credit card of their excess baggage and other paid services. 

At a time when airports and airlines are seeking to extend services offered to passengers, Nice Côte d’Azur Airport goes beyond the classic self-service platform allowing credit card payment on check-in kiosks.

This project based on the IER 918 self check-in kiosks, equipped with a credit card payment module EMV (Eurocard, MasterCard and Visa) and American Express, meets the actual needs of our air transport carriers to propose ancillary services and increase their revenues as part of their strategy to charge additional services while securing the payment transaction.

Deployed last fall at Nice Côte d’Azur Airport Terminal 2 in Zone C (area dedicated to Air France, KLM, Alitalia and Tarom) 14 new IER self check-in kiosks also integrate a baggage tag printer, so as to allow self tagging of the baggage by the passenger.This important milestone in the co-operation between an innovative airport, a self-service solutions’ provider comes after a previous initiative which took place two years ago experimenting Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in the check-in process.  

“The strategy of Nice Côte d’Azur Airport has always been to provide the best tools to the airlines for their operations. The implementation of this kiosk with chip and pin payment module is an anticipation of a future process. If AF/KLM is the first airline to start this kind of process at Nice, all airlines are going to integrate on-line payment, self tagging and certainly self bag drop in their passenger process. To achieve this goal, we had chosen IER CUSS platform, one of the market leaders, and now, we are ready to provide our kiosk to any airline” said Jean-Pierre Torres, head of IT division of Nice Airport. 

“Nice Airport has been experiencing an important increase of traffic in 2011 and I am delighted IER can help to accommodate this growth with innovative self service solutions for the ultimate convenience of its passengers” said Jean-Luc Rauline, IER’s Sales VP Europe, Latin America, and Caribbean & Africa.  

The IER 918 kiosk is one of the most widely used CUSS kiosks with deployments at airports around the world.  This ultimate kiosk fits the air transportation industry self-service strategy using 2D barcode technology, while providing a full page passport scanner and enabling passenger to self tag their bags.