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At Berlin-Schönefeld and Tegel airports, some of the check-in counters will soon be replaced by self-service terminals for baggage delivery. The airport company has taken a similar initiative from the British airline Easyjet, which is its biggest customer. The goal is to speed up baggage management.
In Schönefeld, the conversion will begin "soon" in Terminal B, in Tegel, the plant should be ready for next summer, announced Friday an airport spokesman on request. In the Schönefeld Terminal B, which is currently used almost exclusively by Easyjet, eight machines and four switches will be available instead of eleven meters. In Tegel, 17 self-service points are planned.
Thomas Haagensen, owner of Easyjet Europe, had already expressed the wish to install on the London-Gatwick model larger automated baggage handling systems in Tegel and Schönefeld. The company talks about it with the airport, he told the German news agency.
Delivery to the machine
In these systems, pbadengers return a suitcase or bag to a vending machine. You glue the luggage tag yourself and place the luggage itself on the treadmill. The staff is available nearby to help you.
The system is more efficient than traditional check-in counter, Haagensen said. Later, you can continue to use the luggage machines built in Schönefeld and Tegel at the new BER airport, which is scheduled to open in October 2020.
Easyjet has 37 machines in Berlin, 12 in Schönefeld and 25 in Tegel. Among them, 19 aircraft taken over in January by Air Berlin after their bankruptcy. Easyjet currently employs around 1,200 people in Berlin, including more than 400 formerly with Air Berlin. "But we still need staff, we continue to recruit staff, whether it's pilots or flight attendants," Haagensen said. (AP)
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