Originally Posted by
RangerNS
How possibly can a series of automated conveyer belts move an object, point to point, without scanning it?
Departure belt takes all bags to a central carousel. Bags are hand picked for flights.
Arrivals - every carousel has it’s own belt.
If a arriving bag is put on the wrong belt, no one knows where the bag is, except YYC. This is one of the main reasons why bags go missing.
Originally Posted by
Davvidd
Do you mean a baggage sorting system? Not trying to be clever. The tag gets scanned and then it is automatically sorted and diverted to the sorting area for that particular flight. do you mean that Canada does not have it yet?
I don’t know one Canadian airport that has a bag sorting system.
Originally Posted by
PLeblond
So you are saying that at YUL/YYZ/YYC when you check a bag, its scanned, a picture is taken (as they show you a picture of your luggage at US pre-clearing + that stupid board in YYZ transfer to US area) but then... a bunch of people manually sort the luggage? And connecting flights too?
Really?
I was waiting for this question. US departure bags are scanned for US customs only, and this was required by US customs. Most Canadian airports scan US departure bags by hand. They didn’t want to spend the money for the baggage system to do it. Once bags leave US customs, they are in the dark again.