The first stages of baggage check-in at the airport are familiar to everyone to the smallest detail. Here we put the suitcase on the scales, the airport employee checks it in, glues the tags – and our bags go on their own journey. What happens to them before they get on the plane? “Subtleties” looked “behind the scenes” and are ready to tell you about everything that your suitcase has to go through before it “boards” on the flight. After leaving the check-in hall, the baggage will go on a conveyor belt for sorting to a special area. Usually this is the basement of the airport. There are not only mechanisms (a whole network of scanners, compartments and conveyors up to several kilometers long), but also people – security officers. Their task is to do everything to ensure that the baggage promptly passes the necessary checks and gets on board on time. The tags pasted on it during check-in will help your suitcase not get lost along the way. The barcode on them contains information about the baggage category, flight number, as well as the individual number of the bag. Before the flight, it is important to remove the old tags from the suitcase, otherwise it will face a “penalty lap” in the sorting area. The purpose of this step is to determine the nature and safety of what lies on the tape. Sports equipment, fragile cargo, oversized baggage, will be sent from here for manual sorting. Standard suitcases and bags – for introscopes, “boxes” with rubber shutters and a scanner. They will show if the luggage contains radioactive, explosive, prohibited substances, etc. The image received on the scanner will be sent to the security officer. In a couple of seconds, he will evaluate the contents of the bag and decide whether to skip it further. No — luggage will be additionally screened manually and a tag will be affixed to this effect. During the “pre-screening” stage, the suitcase can be additionally checked by dogs. /c6/rx/c6rxlpleexskcwskcckg0gk8s.jpg < /p> What is the temperature in the luggage compartments of aircraft: do our suitcases freeze? Baggage that has passed the first stage moves along the conveyors towards the exit from the sorting area. He needs to get on his own flight – and after all, they take off several per hour. And here the tags pasted in the registration area help. The scanners that are dotted with conveyors read the barcode from them and guide them along the desired path. By the way, it is at this stage that suitcases with old tags will be redirected to the “extra circle”. If even then the scanners cannot recognize which flight the suitcase belongs to, manual sorting awaits it. Luggage always flies on the same side as the owner. If a person does not show up for boarding, and the suitcase has already been checked in, he will be “removed from the flight.” Such a rule was introduced shortly after 1988, when a terrorist checked in a suitcase with a bomb, but he, of course, did not fly. Then, as a result of a plane explosion over Scotland, 270 people were killed. The exception is suitcases that were once lost and are now “catching up” with their owners. 
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Next, the baggage is picked up by employees of the sorting service and the barcode of the baggage is once again read by a scanner. So the system fixes that this stage of the suitcase has passed, it will be easier to track it if it gets lost. Then the baggage is manually loaded into containers, hooked to the carrier, taken to the aircraft and loaded on board. The requirement for the weight of luggage (limited to 23 kg) is due precisely to the fact that suitcases are folded into containers manually.
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