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Catania's first "family hub" in Italy

From tomorrow moms and dads with babies and children departing from Catania International Airport Fontanarossa will have a security gate designed just for them by SAC, the management company of the airport, to reduce waiting times for those traveling with children to parents and facilitate the necessary control procedures to access restricted area.
It's called Family Fast Track, in Italian "Varco Fast Family", is a security access and free priority dedicated to travelers with children from zero to two years of age and / or children with stroller in tow will be the first airport in Catania Fontanarossa of Italy to offer a similar service that operates exactly when the XXII of the Child Rights Day. The Family Fast Track is easily recognizable thanks to the appropriate colored totems.
To accommodate families lying in them are dedicated workers of the SAC, the management company of the airport, which will verify the possession of a boarding infants (under 2 years) issued at the check-in and allowing the ' access to the Family Fast Track.
"The gate Families - says the president of the Society, Eng. Gaetano Mancini - is the first in a series of services that SAC is developing to meet the needs of the growing number of travelers in transit Fontanarossa and generally to improve the usability of the airport. A survey published by magazines such as noted at the base of discontent and stress of traveling families there are queues at the very gates. We have therefore devoted to an input that would allow to reduce waiting times for passengers with children, here in Catania are so many, especially the holidays, when more frequent family reunions. "
The gate dedicated to the families - who may find the changing table Fontanarossa both male and female bathrooms - is the number 10, next to the scanner's largest (Gilardoni 975), where now the facilitators already in service within the security gates are transit passengers with baby strollers for X-ray control.
At the entrance of the FFT families will be informed of the safety regulations on the transport of liquids on the plane. The baby foods, remember, do not have quantity restrictions unlike other liquids, but as a precaution to parents may be asked to taste them.

(from http://www.aeroporto.catania.it)