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Old 4th May 2006, 22:48
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Irish Steve
 
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I think someone mentioned Onur Air A300

That's going to need a high loader too, and if experience at DUB a while back is anything to go by, you're not going to enjoy the experience. We used to get 2 or 3 Onur's on a Sunday, and we counted ourselves VERY lucky if the floor worked to move the bins.

Bins. Ahhh joy. Most weeks, it was a case of offload, empty the bins, then put the outbound bags into the bins and load them, so double handling the bags, and bingo carding on the ramp. Made a total nonsense of the turnround time. One year we did get them to send in 10 empty bins to help with the preparation, but they soon got recalled.

Then there was the day when I opened up the back, expecting to find 8 bins of bags in there and it was empty. Closed it up, moved the hiloader to the front, opened that to find 3 cargo pallets with the bags netted on them. That royally screwed the system, had to send the (small) crew off to find cargo dollies, which were like hen's teeth at that time of the morning, then go and find bag dollies, (even more rare), to transfer the bags from the cargo pallets to the dollies so they could be moved to the inbound belts, as the ramp into the hall is too narrow for cargo dollies. That alone took over an hour, then we had to load it. There was 4 of us on the crew, so it took a while!

You're in for a fun (NOT) summer by the sound of it.
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