Mallaghan baggage trailers and driveable baggage loaders

[Mooncrest]

Do any airlines or handling agents in the UK use these machines ? If so I'd be interested to read about any experiences of them, regardless of how good or bad they are.

Thankyou.

[Mooncrest]

Hmm. Either no UK users have anything to say about Mallaghan or there are no UK users (on Pprune).

[WorkSmart]

Menzies in MAN have a couple of mallaghan loaders. But technical issues makes them limit in use. Power Stow make a similar product which is very good for quick turn arounds and high capacity flights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uTb-rR6eqw

[backtrack_32]

They use the belt loaders in MAN. I believe swissport LBA used them up till a few months ago. I don't think they were very user friendly. You had to
Stand up to drive it, massive blind spots and unreliable.

[Mooncrest]

Worksmart and backtrack. Thankyou for the info folks.

[Mick1965]

MENZIES in BRS had the Mallaghan Bendi Belts and I believe their experience was very good.
I have also saw them working with Swissport in GEN.
I believe that the Mallaghan 3rd and 4th generation units are much better and reliable than the 1st generation.

[Steno1950]

Guys at our station nearly have heart attacks driving the bendi belts to the A/C. Only 300 hours of operation since 2013 and mostly out of operation.

[1208]

the IOM uses them,as an observer of turn rounds they seem ok until they bump into the aircraft