Online check-in and automated check-in
Online check-in opens 24 hours before take-off.
Your benefits
- Accessible as of 24 hours before departure
- Select your seat online
- Download your mobile boarding pass or print it in advance
- Go straight to the gate with hand baggage
- Convenient and secure
- Print the home printed baggage tag at home and profit from shorter waiting times at baggage check-in
This is how it works
Online check-in will take you to your boarding pass in just a few steps.
Log on
Log on to swiss.com with your name and SWISS booking code (e.g. ABC123) or your online profile. Then select online check-in under booking details.
Make selection
Select seat and enter additional passport information, depending on the destination.
Receive
Have the mobile boarding pass sent to you as a link by text message or e-mail or print your boarding pass. The mobile boarding pass can also be saved in the SWISS app or Wallet.
Drop off
With hand baggage, you can go straight to the gate. Additional baggage can be dropped off in advance at the baggage drop-off counter or the self-service bag drop machine.
Other options in combination with online check-in
In combination with online check-in, on a constantly growing number of routes you now have the option of preparing the baggage tag for your checked baggage easily at home. Both the home printed baggage tag and the RIMOWA Electronic Tag are available to you for this purpose.
Your benefits
- You will receive your mobile boarding pass 16-20 hours before departure by text message or e-mail
- Go straight to the gate with hand baggage
- Convenient and secure
- Also possible for bookings of up to nine people
Automated check-in: this is how it works
When booking on SWISS.com, you can choose whether you would like to receive your mobile boarding pass as a link by text message or by e-mail. If you want to change how you receive your boarding pass, you can do so in your profile under “Personal details”. However, you cannot opt out of automated check-in.
Please note: for some flight connections*, automated check-in is not available.
Depending upon the route and flight class, you can reserve your preferred seat either free-of-charge or at an extra cost while booking online.
If you have still not received a boarding pass or a message 16 hours before departure, you cannot be checked in automatically. However, all the other check-in options are still available as usual.
* For flights from Dubrovnik, Nis, Pula, Split, Tirana and Toulon, there is no automated check-in available.
Additional passenger information
Some countries require additional passenger information before people may enter them. Please enter this information at swiss.com/api up to 72 hours before your departure. If the information is incomplete or not available, we cannot proceed with automated check-in and we will notify you by e-mail or SMS around 20 hours before departure. In this event, please use one of the other check-in options.