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Another British Triumph…

… in the long tradition of cock-ups. Heathrow’s Terminal 5. I confess to stirrings of schadenfreude over this:
 
   
 
I do feel for the poor guy (one Ian Bailey). His faith in computer technology is touching. The scenes of baggage being stowed by automated stacker cranes brings back terrifying memories of the time I spent writing (and debugging) the software for the automated conveyor system that handled pallets of Austin Mini parts in the British Leyland factory in Birmingham in the late 1970s. Shudder.

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    Brian

    Poor chap.  Maybe he should go to work at Malpensa or Linate, where BA have sent the 20, 000 excess bags T5 couldn’t handle, for processing and return to their owners.  Sending them to Milan by lorry bypasses the usual security screening T5 was meant to have automated. TSA must be laughing that someone is more incompetent than they are.

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