baggage handler duties

1. Airline Baggage Handler

2. Airline and its classification
Airlines are classified by their routes and by
their schedules.
The two major classifications are domestic
airlines and international airlines.
 Domestic airlines provide services within a
country.
International airlines, on the other hand,
operate both within a nation and between two
or more nations.

3. Brief job description
• Airline Baggage Handler prepares
baggage,cargo and mail to be transported to
an aircraft and recives loads from an
aircarft,interprets baggage tags and labelling
information and use appropriate equipment.

4. Baggage Journey from Airport Lounge
to Aircraft Stand
Check-in counter staff loads your baggage to
check-in belts that transfer the baggage to a series
of conveyor belts that ultimately carry the
baggage to a baggage carousal where airline staff
is deployed for further action. At this stage,
baggage is still in airport building.

6. Airline staff transfers all the baggage manually from the baggage carousal to a baggage cart
or a Unit Load Device (ULD)
Ground handling staff loads up multiple baggage carts and hooks them with each other to
make a train of baggage carts to be towed to the aircraft. At this point, baggage is ready to
leave the confines of airport building.
A towing tractor is used for towing the train of baggage carts from airport building to
airside on the aircraft stand or bay where the aircraft is parked.
Baggage cart
Towing tractor

7. On arrival flights, baggage and cargo is unloaded from the aircraft and transferred to
baggage reclaim belts. Airline or GHA staff unload baggage carts and ULDs over to
the belts for passengers to receive on the other side

8. Loading and unloading

11. Types of Airliners
Narrow-body airliners Wide-body airliners
The most common airliners are the The larger wide body aircraft ,or twin-aisle as
narrow-body aircraft, or single-aisles. they have two seprate aisles in the cabin,are
used for long naul flights.

12. Baggage holds
Designed to hold baggage as well as freight, these compartments are called "cargo bins",
"baggage holds", "luggage holds", or occasionally "pits". Occasionally baggage holds may be
referred to as cargo decks on the largest of aircraft. These compartments can be accessed
through doors on the outside of the aircraft.

13. Depending on the aircraft, baggage holds are normally inside the hull and are therefore
pressurized just like the passenger cabin although they may not be heated. While lighting is
normally installed for use by the loading crew, typically the compartment is unlit when the door
is closed.
Baggage holds on modern airliners are equipped with fire detection equipment and larger
aircraft have automated or remotely activated fire-fighting devices installed

14. Video :
https://youtu.be/2y7H4wabA88
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