Airports are often busy, tiring places – especially at the end of a flight, when all you want to do is get on your way.

It looks like Europcar understand this and are doing their best to ease the pain. Europcar’s new Airside check-in system enables passengers travelling from Gatwick and Edinburgh into many of the UK’s major airports to have their rental car reservations processed automatically – before they arrive.

According to Europcar Operations Director David Alexander, “customers can check-in their car for rental before they board the plane, safe in the knowledge that the rental agreement will be pre-printed and the vehicle will be allocated before they even take off.”

All that remains to be done on arrival is to sign the rental agreement, pickup the keys and drive off. Sounds good to me.