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Old 30th Mar 2008, 17:13
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ramphawk
 
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BA Website - T5 Baggage System

Baggage has never moved so fast

The baggage system can deal with 12,000 bags per hour. It will move your baggage as fast as 30mph on a total of 18km of belts. The long conveyer belts and intelligent baggage carts running on miles of rails mean that your bag can reach Baggage Reclaim in around 15 minutes

Road tested to perfection

We took the best baggage systems from airports such as Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. We combined them in one design and road tested it to perfection. The result is a fast, safe, reliable system you can have confidence in.

Talk about misleading your poor old customers! This is still on the BA website if you care to look. I suppose it should not come of much surprise that the claim about road testing to perfection is still there.

The baggage system may well be owned by BAA, but it looks like BA also appear to have taken an active part in selecting and specifying the system.

http://www.terminal5.ba.com/en/arriv...ggage-reclaim/

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