![]() “With these high side-walls, it gets contained in here,” Goodwin said. Goodwin said the sled, with your bag, will get to and from your plane faster compared to Terminals A and B. We always know where the bags are in the system.” So your bags aren’t going to the wrong places all over the country. ![]() And when they do, the system will pick up that RFID chip and say now I know what this bag is, I can still treat it differently. “These bins run into each other and they just bounce off each other. “Think of it like bumper cars.,” Goodwin said. Scott Goodwin, MCO Airport Operations Manager, said once a bag is loaded onto the sled, it will pass through the entire Terminal C in five minutes. The $2.8 billion terminal will rely heavily on the latest technology. There are more automated luggage collection points closer to more planes on the tarmac, so bags will be driven a much shorter distance from planes to collection points compared to Terminals A and B. Or, a bag will be directed to the exit: the luggage carousel. Or it will be transported directly to the tarmac to a waiting plane, potentially at the same time as other bags headed to that plane so airline baggage handlers can load a plane quicker. It will be shuffled to a robotic storage spot where bags will wait if passengers check them in early more than three hours before a flight. Think of it like your bag is taking its own trip, on a highway, getting off at certain exits at different places under the new terminal. MCO provided News 6 behind-the-scenes video. You’ll never see it and never know it, but as soon as you hand over your luggage at the check-in counter in Terminal C, your bag will be dropped off into a yellow “smart” bin - a plastic sled that has its own RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tracking - to automatically go whizzing around the six miles of internal converter belt. The Orlando International Airport’s state-of-the-art baggage handling system at the soon-to-open Terminal C should eliminate a lot of checked luggage fears. – When you travel by plane, is your biggest worry your luggage?
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