Matching baggage system investment with airport growth

Matching baggage system investment with airport growth. At what point should a growing airport consider moving away from conveyor based sortation. As the world’s airports continue to see annual passenger growth of around 10%, the number of airports where larger capacity sortation is required is growing. Smaller airports will normally have a baggage system based around conveyors and make-up using carousels. These systems will typically vary from having some level of automated sortation allowing some sortation to the ability to provide full sortation. This approach to baggage systems has its limitations but the right support and targeted investment can provide surprisingly high capacities. For small airports delaying the move to more complex sortation approaches delivers a number of benefits including: Delaying major capital investment – replacing a whole baggage system can cost several million through to tens of millions. Delaying this investment can provide significant opportunity for airports to invest in other areas first such as passenger experience or other capacity enablers Reduced maintenance burden – conveyors, vertical sorts, carousels are all relatively easy components of a baggage system to maintain, this enables airports to employee smaller more cost effective maintenance teams rather than the larger more qualified teams required for sorters or cart systems Reduced energy costs – On demand running conveyors can be very energy efficient while sorters require to run continuously using much higher levels of energy Reduced manufacturer reliance – due to the reduced complexity both in the physical components and controls software conveyor based systems […]

Doha Airport Baggage Design

Design of new arrivals baggage system, New Departures System and Upgrade of Existing Departures System. £8m Completed 2011. Baggage system design for options and scheme on three separate projects. Millar Management appointed Qatar Airways to design economical solutions for the three projects: New arrivals baggage system including remote feeds to 8 No new carousels with in line customs screening RFID tagging solution developed for bag identification. Increasing capacity of existing departures baggage system including integration of inline hold baggage screening, SAC and output sort. New Stillage design to increase make up capacity. New baggage system including large output carousel, in-line screening and EBS and 23 new check-in desks. All designs were being carried out using 3D Cad, coordinating into main Architect 3D models. Technical specifications and tender documents prepared for all three projects.