Containerised baggage - worth the effort ?
Had yet again a baggage reconciliation departure delay of 1 hour because a bag had been loaded without the associated passenger, so the handling equipment and staff have to be found to come back, all the containers have to be taken out, bag pulled, then the whole lot put back again, it seems that containerised baggage is not all it's cracked up to be compared to bulk loading.
It also seems to require much longer to unload compared to the old bulk days, where even on a widebody the team might have all the bags out of the hold before the last passenger disembarks. Nowadays it seems it can add maybe 30 minutes to the process.
Given that the bags still need to be handled in and out, just in/out of the container instead of in/out of the hold, you have to wonder where the efficiency might be.