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Matty_B_9693 has SimAirport

9 May, 2022 @ 6:34am

Baggage handling flight connections question

I have a large airport, which has a working baggage system on levels -1 (outbound bags) and -2 (inbound bags, with riser islands)

I have 2 piers (gates B & C) and a small satellite (gates A)

Each pier has its own dedicated check-in (hall 1 check in, for satellite gates A, and pier B gates)

And a seperate baggage system & check-in hall 2, for pier C

Then each of these two major baggage systems is treated as an outbound baggage system from check-in TO bag depots floor -1 , and an inbound baggage system floor -2, from baggage depots TO carousels.

Although it doesn't appear to effect my happiness metrics, I'm having 5 to 15% of my bags never get loaded outbound.. (looking at stats clicking aircraft on turnaround)

My question is (I have 10K+ pax a day, of which 1K+ have flight connections)

Do I need to put a 'crossbar' baggage link, with baggage hubs between all inbound and outbound baggage systems, for flight connection bags? ... So the come in at one airside depot, and come out again, at another, for connections?

(In a real airport, this is handled by the baggage system in kind of this way)

Is it my connecting pax losing their bags, because inbound and outbound luggage are totally isolated?

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chick10000 has SimAirport

9 May, 2022 @ 7:58am

connecting pax do not take their bags from one flight to another so no need to do any cross connections.

What you are seeing is there is only one pickup of bags to fill a plane. it happens as soon as the baggage cars empty the arriving plane of its current bags. because it happens so early some bags may still be in transit or not even checked in yet and will just sit in the baggage depot. It was discussed in the past to have another baggage car come and get any more bags but the potential of delaying the flight was very high, so the devs decided to leave it as is. It is more important in the game to get the flight off on time than the bags loaded

Matty_B_9693 has SimAirport

9 May, 2022 @ 8:41am

OK, that explains it, I'll not tinker any more with the baggage system, as all flights leave on time, and I might have less than 10 pax per day, miss departures, on 10K pax a day.

Time to get Terminal 2 built, and leave T1 alone :)

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