Airport bag handling video

[marks]

Is it just me...
Or perhaps they were making a tik tok on the redbull effect on baggage handlers?
Super strength? Redbull gives your bags wings?
Tik tok usually brings out the best behavior in people.

 

[BriarFlyer]

Is it just me...
Or perhaps they were making a tik tok on the redbull effect on baggage handlers?
Super strength? Redbull gives your bags wings?
Tik tok usually brings out the best behavior in people.

Not just you. I never discount the obsession of some people with going viral on TikTok.

 

[pangwen]

I can assure you that it happens at other airports around the world from my observations.
Might not be staff picking things up over there head and slamming them down but throwing bags is a common occurrence I’d think

I wouldn't be surprised about throwing like the VA clip showed - the staff have time pressures too and there may not be enough time to walk each bag to the end of the trolley to put them gently down.

Doing an overhead slam WWE-style is a different matter though, and is something beyond the pale. As one of the other posters said, they don't even have the 'excuse' that they are trying to be efficient, because doing this creates more work to pick up the bags that have fallen off.

 

[nutwood]

, because doing this creates more work to pick up the bags that have fallen off.

You are assuming they picked them up? I would suggest that those bags stayed right where they fell until some time later in the day, when someone was assigned to go and tidy them up. Meanwhile, front counter staff are filling out lost baggage forms.

 

[JohnK]

Sadly for $20 per hour you aren't going to find "professionals" but you may find someone that doesn't slam bags like the video

Management is mostly the problem with Swissport reading the reviews

Well maybe not professionals but someone that is grateful to have a job and respect other people's property would be a start?

I suspect you're right about management though. The culture in this type of business appears to be one showing no care. Airlines should be expecting and requesting more.

By the way I think I've commented in another thread. This appears to be an issue worldwide.

 

[encryptededdy]

I was waiting for my bags at Tokyo Haneda, and there were two people at the carousel who were there to ensure the bags landed softly onto the main conveyer from the input conveyer (using their hands to break the fall by slowing the bag). They also ensured the bags were the right way up and evenly spaced.

So no, not all airports, but probably 99% except Japan.

 

[MARTINE]

I was waiting for my bags at Tokyo Haneda, and there were two people at the carousel who were there to ensure the bags landed softly onto the main conveyer from the input conveyer (using their hands to break the fall by slowing the bag). They also ensured the bags were the right way up and evenly spaced.

So no, not all airports, but probably 99% except Japan.

Which is why travelling in Japan is a respectful joy…

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1598834508991975424

 

[Happy Dude]

Such footage will not help the TWUs case in the upcoming high court case. It does not fit the TWUs narrative that the 'poor anxious baggage handlers love and value their jobs and don't deserve redundancy'.

 

[Chicken]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1598834508991975424

I don't know how to react to Adam Briggs' comment

 

[TheInsider]

Such footage will not help the TWUs case in the upcoming high court case. It does not fit the TWUs narrative that the 'poor anxious baggage handlers love and value their jobs and don't deserve redundancy'.

Well those staff that did this aren't the redundant ones.

 

[RichardMEL]

I was waiting for my bags at Tokyo Haneda, and there were two people at the carousel who were there to ensure the bags landed softly onto the main conveyer from the input conveyer (using their hands to break the fall by slowing the bag). They also ensured the bags were the right way up and evenly spaced.

So no, not all airports, but probably 99% except Japan.

I am reminded recently at SEA I was surprised to find someone at the bag claim for my flight both repositioning bags (and also scanning them - one presumes as proof of delivery to the belt) but the effort was definitely appreciated in terms of properly aligning (most of) the bags. It all got a b it much for him at one point with the flow of bags but it was still an effort made (of course it also made scanning easier in most cases)

 

[nutwood]

Well those staff that did this aren't the redundant ones.

They are now.

 

[AIRwin]

They are now.

Not a redundancy though

 

[jpp42]

Such footage will not help the TWUs case in the upcoming high court case. It does not fit the TWUs narrative that the 'poor anxious baggage handlers love and value their jobs and don't deserve redundancy'.

Huh? It fits their narrative entirely - they would state that the well-paid, decent Qantas baggage handlers never did anything like this, and only outsourced baggage handlers who are paid minimum wage would hate their jobs.

 

[Happy Dude]

Huh? It fits their narrative entirely - they would state that the well-paid, decent Qantas baggage handlers never did anything like this, and only outsourced baggage handlers who are paid minimum wage would hate their jobs.

Yes that could be argued but only if you believe that QF workers are/were different. Plenty of comments above that state otherwise. The fact that these aren't QF workers is irrelevant but as this appears to be an ongoing and widespread problem, it does characterise the workers and the job somewhat. The high court case will rely on QF proving that there were other reasons, such as this kind of thing not just commercial ones, for the outsourcing.

 

[bad]

My Bags get trashed after one or two trips anyway. So that this happening is not surprising as the glass inside my baggage is often broken. From now on, I will attach an acceleration meter to my bag to measure how the bags are treated. More G's, more potential damage. G Meters can be bought online.

 

[BAM1748]

While this could happen with both airline employees and contractors, the comment from QF "we have raised this with out contractor"; whereas if this was a QF employee is would have been "we investigated and this employee has been terminated" and issue actioned.

The problem doesn't appear to be dealt with as yet which drags it on and tarnishes the airline name further.

 

[jb747]

Management have achieved what they aimed for. It's now an SEP. Somebody else's problem.

 

[AIRwin]

My Bags get trashed after one or two trips anyway.

You need to redeem points for a better bag...