Eindhoven Airport purchases seven additional lifting aids to lighten workload baggage handler

With the purchase of seven additional lifting aids, Eindhoven Airport significantly lighten the workload of baggage handlers in the baggage hall. They use the lifting aids during the loading of checked baggage for departing flights. With these additional lifting aids, the airport currently has a total of nine lifting aids.

This means that a large part of the loading areas in the baggage hall are equipped with lifting aids. The areas not yet equipped with lifting aids will be addressed next. The airport plans to order seven more lifting aids, which will be installed in the first quarter of 2026, allowing the airport to make the necessary adjustments to the baggage system first. By the first quarter of next year, all loading areas will be equipped with lifting aids. Until then, the baggage process for departing flights will be organized so that baggage handlers work as much as possible in positions where lifting aids are installed.

Eindhoven Airport places great importance on the working conditions of employees. Reducing physical strain is an important part of this. Therefore, the airport invests in these aids.

The airport has previously invested in lifting aids to ease the physical work for baggage handlers. For processing incoming baggage, the airport has had three lifting aids since December 2023; a lifting aid is available at each unloading belt. In the expanded terminal to be completed in the summer of 2027, an additional unloading belt will be equipped with a lifting aid.

Eindhoven Airport continues to work with handlers to explore possible optimizations to further lighten the work of baggage handlers. The goal is to make effortless lifting and moving of baggage the norm.