VIDEO: What REALLY happens to your luggage at the airport

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What REALLY happens to your luggage at the airport: Fascinating POV video shows suitcase's journey

Mesmerising footage captured at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Europe's fifth busiest airport, shows a suitcase racing along a network of conveyor belts before it is scooped up by a robotic arm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8vncFySne0

[alfalfa19]

interesting.

[dotpoom]

Not one accident....we could do with a system like that on our roads over here.

[DrTuner]

Looks like a normal BKK morning commute.

[kotsak]

In case you are wondering why your souvenirs got smashed

[xjbond]

Safer than humans throwing your luggage as far and hard as they "humanly" can.

[gk10002000]

anybody remember the old luggage commercial, american tourister hard luggage I think it was back in the 70s; A gorilla switching back and forth to a bell hop tossing the luggage around behind the traveler's back

[brianj1964]

they miss out the bit where luggage handlers break into the bag and rummage for valuables.

[Chivas]

Safer than humans throwing your luggage as far and hard as they "humanly" can.

One of the reasons I use a "soft" bag thats strong in manaufacture but hopefully absorbs the wallops these Baggage Handlers deliver to. Hard Case more likely to burst open but only my opinion.

[bendejo]

Compare that to the LCCT in Kuala Lumpur. When you check your bag with AIr Asia it goes right onto the cart that will be driven to the plane.

[Lokie]

Really, and not a Cash or Drug doggie in sight ehh?

American Tourister, yep still have mine in black, armoured; been around the world a few times over last 10 years or so, in that time I put a new handle on it, a few £/$s off fleabay, still going strong!

[wooloomooloo]

American Tourister, yep still have mine in black, armoured; been around the world a few times over last 10 years or so ...

Cheap Charlie.

[Gonsalviz]

Safer than humans throwing your luggage as far and hard as they "humanly" can.

One of the reasons I use a "soft" bag thats strong in manaufacture but hopefully absorbs the wallops these Baggage Handlers deliver to. Hard Case more likely to burst open but only my opinion.

Not Opinion. It is fact. I have traveled millions of miles. American Airlines ripped one apart and many were lost but the soft bags win.

[Lokie]

American Tourister, yep still have mine in black, armoured; been around the world a few times over last 10 years or so ...

Cheap Charlie.

You betcha, and helping reduce my carbon footprint to boot, has never burst on me throwing my knickers all over the gaff and can fit half a ton of Yorkshire tea bags in there for LOS extentions with ease... with a few lbs of proper full strength mature Chedder cheese