0 the work of taking passengers' bags and suitcases and putting them onto or removing them from an aircraft: --
The proposed terminal complex includes a new terminal building, incorporating passenger and baggage handling areas, catering facilities and office accommodation, together with car parks, aprons and a mechanical transport depot.
The new baggage collection area will be separately fed by a roller conveyor and should greatly increase the baggage handling capacity of the airport.
Just about everything from baggage handling to meals is contracted out.
It dealt also with wider matters such as checking-in systems, the handling of transfer passengers and immigration procedures, but by far the greatest effort was devoted to baggage handling.
Anxious relatives and friends waiting were told that the delay was due to a baggage handling dispute.
Practical and technical initiatives at airports, during baggage handling and in data and telecommunications systems must be improved.
We all recognise the problem of baggage handling—and the airlines and the airport authority do as much as anybody.
Baggage handling, now that it works, is a plus for the airport, and £250 million has been spent on it.
