Originally Posted by
rkkwan
I believe they have an automated system. And we are a narrowbody parked at the closest gate to the baggage claim. Which makes it possible. A containerized 777 or 744 parked at Gate 60 takes a lot more time...
I saw a documentary series of the building and operation of HKIA on Discovery channels a while back:
I remember most plane at gate the luggage is unloaded directly onto the conveyor system.
This cut into the delay time as bags needed to be loaded onto the "train" driven to baggage claim and then loaded onto the conveyer that takes it down.
Smaller planes that do not use the container system like the 744 and 777 would see the most time savings.
Even with 744/777 containers HKIA, in HK tradition of efficiency are normally 20-30 minutes faster than international airports in North America.