It would be helpful if the auto bag drops actually worked. I have 6 set up, and after the first wave when all six were used, now there is only one active at any one time, which seems to have three flights allocated to it, and a queue of increasingly-frustrated PAX waiting to drop their bags. The others have no flight allocated, and the PSAs are opening up the manual check in/bag drops again…
A bag drop can handle 4 flights at the same time. Means that if it would be 75 as well, 4x75 pax could run on one drop at the same time. @Olof Is the calculation for the bag drops the same?
If yes, I would suggest some little tweaks:
Small Check in Desk: 35 pax
Medium Check in Desk: 75pax
Baggage Drop: 20 pax per assigned flight (4 x 20 = a max capacity of 80 pax)
That would either require to add more bag drops or build a backup of normal Check in desks. Causing a bit more realistic check in as some passenger will be forced to use the manned check in.
I tried just changing my manned desks 1:1 to automated check-in desks. Unfortunately, in its current state, I just don’t see it working. Basically, if I have two or three bag drops (and multiple self check in kiosks), my flights still end up all using the same bag drop and abandoning the other, so a crowd forms around the only in-use bag drop (also doesn’t help that you can’t build a queue for those).
There are actually similar issues for things that are built in multiple–for example, one flight may be assigned multiple check in desks, but they’re not necessarily the ones next to each other; sometimes all my flights crowd into the same baggage claim area, and leave the other one empty; my passengers seem to all like to use the same bus stop (that has very infrequent service), rather than the multiple other bus stops (with queues of buses, but no passengers!)… etc. But I guess things can’t be perfect!