PanHAM wrote:If you can also tell AB where they can get the staff from you could bill them a ton of Money. Seems to be a mix of inadequate facilities, the second "star" at TXL should have been build 20 years ago the fact that staff with deep security checks is simply not available in required numbers.
I agree with you except on the points of the inadequate facilities. If you ask baggage handlers and ground personal working at TXL currently, especially at Terminal A there are no problems at all. The baggage gets put on the belt just "in front of the nose of the aircraft" and arrives in the arrival lounges after going up one level. We are talking 10 meters on the belt from the aircraft to the waiting passengers.
And after AB reducing so many routes, parking many aircraft (just look at the apron at SXF) and also giving away many of them to Niki and LH, Terminal C is really quiet these days, not much going on there, no overfilled baggage carroussels anymore at the moment.
The baggage handlers all say the same: we do what we can, we work our asses off, but there are just not enough people with the required security checks. And we have to blame AB for 100% of this mess. They changed the ground handling company and totally mismanaged this change. They should have had contracts with the old ground handler to do the work until the new ground handling company is ready to take over 100% of the AB flights.
BTW the new ground handling Company is owned by Munich Airport and is handling most flights at MUC, so These are no amateurs. It's just AB to blame.