Passenger Check-In Before Baggage Handling

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That’s the standard since big birds came out last November.

Airport CEO Alpha 33 released (The Big Bird Update)

So to add a bit of info. This change was made to better handle check in with the larger aircraft as it would be reasonable for an airline to open a certain amount of desks depending on the departing passenger count. When doing tests with the A380, 3 desks where simply way to few and caused massive delay. So we changed it and 1 desk per 75 passenger is a rough value but it is set so that most medium flights will at least open two desks. Each flight passenger count, like Olof said, is randomized i…

But yes, it’s nowhere mentioned.
And baggage drops will make all calculations wortless as it does not apply to them.