AAI to revamp baggage handling area to open international arrival terminal

  • | Wednesday | 28th June, 2017

CHENNAI: Airports Authority of India (AAI) is planning to make alterations to the baggage handling area in the basement of new international arrival terminal in a bid to open the facility to passengers at Chennai airport. This is a limitation airlines citied because the number of baggage handled in international terminal will be higher as most international flights are widebody planes with 240 to 350 passengers each. The ground floor arrival terminal has been lying unused for years as there is little space for handling baggage and airlines raised objection to move in.A senior AAI official said a consultant, hired for studying the construction of new terminals, would be asked to offer inputs about the changes required to make the arrival hall operational. "The changes are most likely in the path designed for movement of checked-in baggage," he said There is only one ramp to transfer baggage from the planes to the basement of the building where they will be processed and sent up to the conveyor belts.

CHENNAI: Airports Authority of India (AAI) is planning to make alterations to the baggage handling area in the basement of new international arrival terminal in a bid to open the facility to passengers at Chennai airport. The ground floor arrival terminal has been lying unused for years as there is little space for handling baggage and airlines raised objection to move in.A senior AAI official said a consultant, hired for studying the construction of new terminals, would be asked to offer inputs about the changes required to make the arrival hall operational. "The changes are most likely in the path designed for movement of checked-in baggage," he said There is only one ramp to transfer baggage from the planes to the basement of the building where they will be processed and sent up to the conveyor belts. This is a limitation airlines citied because the number of baggage handled in international terminal will be higher as most international flights are widebody planes with 240 to 350 passengers each.

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