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Article: BAGGAGE SYSTEM WON'T FLY AT AIRPORT.(BUSINESS)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 29, 1994
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Byline: Associated Press
DENVER City officials went ahead with a vast, $193 million automated baggage system at the new Denver International Airport despite warnings from consultants four years ago that the idea was too ambitious.
Now the city is trying to figure out how to open the $3.7 billion airport without it.
``When it comes to project management, this has to be one of the world's great planning disasters,'' said Mike Boyd, head of Aviation Systems Research Corp. in Golden, an aviation consulting firm.
The baggage system built by BAE Automated Systems Inc., a single-bag roller coaster with 21 miles of track, was to be the ...