Not only will this start the necessary familiarisation too late, these people will also have important contributions to make for a healthy operation even during the design and installation phase. This is – in my experience – a major mistake. BHS suppliers, civil aviation authorities or other state agencies are often the actual customers of the supply contracts and the airport operators, handling agents and airlines are out of the picture. Many contracts are structured in a way that the operator of the airport (and the BHS) has access to the systems (and the building) only after completion. This is however often not possible and takes a lot of convincing.
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It is best to include the baggage handling personnel already during the testing and commissioning phase of the system so they learn the facilities and how to operate them at an early stage. Once this is catered for the training of the staff can begin. Every path in the BHS should have a diversion, every vital system integrated a back-up system and every standard operating procedure must have a fallback plan. One key factor during the design and concept phase is redundancy. The very first step is to get the planning right and cater for what you need in terms of baggage delivery performance rather than conveniently fitting it somewhere in the basement. That is why even new airports and terminals have to learn the bitter lesson that an insufficient BHS has the potential to paralyse the entire airport operation within minutes. Often, architects have just allocated a space in the terminal, which they thought should be sufficient for the baggage processing and makeup. But this is unfortunately not always the way it is done. After this is brought to paper in a BHS layout, the baggage hall can be designed around it.
The dimensions, typical shapes, materials, per Pax ratio, even content will get you important results that have to be taken into consideration for planning a new BHS.Ĩ0% of the typical Middle East checked baggage would be out-of-gauge in Europe, so it is important to get the average profile and per route specifics of your baggage to cater for sufficient baggage handling facilities.Īfter this is done and paired with the volume of passenger and bags per anno and during the maximum peak hour the BHS can be planned according to the local needs considering the number of handling agents, the equipment used by them and the security screening and customs requirements. Similar to a study on passenger profiles for a new terminal, an analysis of bags should be done. When planning for a new BHS (Baggage Handling System) I recommend looking at your bags as if they were customers.
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