Method for Aircraft Baggage Handling
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Abstract
A method for handling aircraft baggage which is transported in an aircraft, preferably in standardized baggage containers, for the passengers of a specific flight in the arrival sector of an airport terminal, announces to the passenger that his or her item of baggage is being handled on one of the baggage carousels and simultaneously ensures that the item of baggage of a passenger or a plurality of items of baggage are actually available on the announced baggage carousels. In order to do so, the flight baggage is logistically associated with passenger-related criteria that are stored in a computer and that determine upon or after unloading of the aircraft or the baggage containers, the distribution of the flight baggage to one of a plurality of baggage carousels.
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28 Claims
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1-15. -15. (canceled)
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16. A method for handling aircraft baggage transported in an aircraft, individually or in standardized baggage containers, between two or more carousels in an arrivals terminal of an airport terminal, for passengers of a specific flight, the method comprising the following steps:
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logistically associating the aircraft baggage with passenger-related criteria stored in a computer, upon receiving the aircraft baggage at check-in or immediately thereafter; distributing the aircraft baggage, based on the stored association, to one of a plurality of carousels, during or after unloading of the aircraft or the baggage containers, deliberately based on reproducible criteria defined at the latest before the baggage item is passed to a respective carousel; and informing the passenger which carousel will handle the passenger'"'"'s aircraft baggage, before or during loading of the aircraft baggage onto the carousels from one and the same flight. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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