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Old Jun 29, 2022, 9:01 am
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mmogdan
 
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Originally Posted by Globaliser
ISTR that low-fare airlines also often do baggage differently. When the aircraft arrives, the departing bags are driven to the aircraft. The arriving bags are then unloaded. Then the same loaders load the departing bags. When that loading is finished and the aircraft is ready to depart, the arriving bags are then driven to the terminal and put onto the belt. This is one way in which the turnaround time can be kept down: there is only one round-trip for the baggage train between the terminal and the aircraft.

Imagine the complaints about late-delivered bags if BA were to do this on routine basis.
Slightly OT, but I flew Vueling recently and most of Group 2 and 3 (they have only 3 boarding groups) were forced to gate check any large hand luggage. The tags were printed very quickly on boarding card scan and on both sectors there was an additional agent on the jetty taking the checked bags off of people.

It was a highly impressive operation leading resulting in on time departures on 100% full flights. I have seen BA in recent times load full 319/20/21's with no gate checking of bags (resulting in the easily predicted chaos onboard / late push backs).
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