Video: Baggage handlers filmed throwing bikes in bags off EasyJet plane
The baggage handler was filmed taking a number of bike bags from the hold of this plane and, well, not handling them with care.
Baggage handlers unloading an EasyJet plane have been filmed unloading what appear to be full bike bags from a plane's hold and manhandling them onto a waiting truck.
While no damage would be done to a regular suitcase handled in this way, one winces when one thinks of the expensive and fragile bikes inside these bike boxes.
They are lifted from the plane without incident. But rather than placed on the back of the truck, they are thrown down.
It appears the baggage handler in question is acting to increase the speed of the unloading as placing each bike box down would take slight more time.
The clip was filmed and Tweeted by journalist Andy Thronley. He often writes about cycling and his work is published in The Evening Standard, The Independent, Daily Mail and Private Eye.
When he Tweeted the video EasyJet replied seeking more information about where and when the incident had taken place.
Thronley told then it was at Gatwick Airport in London just before lunchtime yesterday.
The airline suggested the staff member in question worked for a ground handling agent.
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The video and EasyJet reply
Hey @easyJet - seriously not cool for your baggage handlers to be dropping thousands of pounds worth of bikes like that! pic.twitter.com/YNlJCNzmn2
— Andy Thornley (@scouser_andy) March 6, 2017
@scouser_andy Hi Andy. Thanks for the tweet. Can you drop us a DM with more details about that please? Best regards, Tulio
— easyJet (@easyJet) March 6, 2017
.@easyJet Menzies staff on stand 105 at @Gatwick_Airport today at 12:45pm. Mentioned it to dispatcher on my way off flight 8622 next door.
— Andy Thornley (@scouser_andy) March 6, 2017
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