{"product_id":"lane-check-in-thomas-brant-9781068377280","title":"Lane @ Check In","description":"\u003cp\u003eLuton Airport. With 13,324,491 passengers a year flying out of Bedfordshire, Sprint Air's check-in zone is the last outpost of sanity in a world built on chaos, queues, and corporate delusion. Lane Carlton, a student of the formidable Jane Boulton and Sprint check-in supervisor who has seen it all, runs her desk like a captain steering a sinking ship-efficiently, dryly, and with a gallows wit born from years of low-cost madness. Every shift is a battle between order and entropy: broken payment machines, irate passengers armed with printouts from flight comparison sites, and the mercurial Ops team upstairs who believe spreadsheets can fix reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside her loyal deputy Lucy King and a ragtag crew of staff too underpaid to care yet too proud to quit, Lane navigates a world where aviation dreams collide with budget nightmares. From TikTok \"record-breaking\" passengers to catastrophic IT outages, her day is a symphony of absurdity set to the background hum of delayed departures and misplaced bags.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut beneath the fluorescent lights and ironic safety posters, Lane @ Check-In is more than an airport comedy-it's a portrait of modern Britain at 35,000 feet and counting. Through sharp dialogue and dry humour, the novel exposes the humanity behind every boarding pass: the quiet competence that holds the travel industry together, and the exhaustion that threatens to tear it apart. In a place where no two shifts are ever the same, Lane's resilience, sarcasm, and occasional kindness make her the unsung heroine of the departure hall-the woman who keeps the system running long after it should have crashed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Brant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1068377283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781068377280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e T Brant Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Thomas Brant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48175907438847,"sku":"9781068377280","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_78352dac-2ec3-41b9-bc30-fca5ea79ddb2.jpg?v=1771336288","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lane-check-in-thomas-brant-9781068377280","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}