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Article: DIA's baggage system strikes again Removal of tracks, remnants may cost airport $18 million.(Business)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2008
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Byline: Chris Walsh , Rocky Mountain News
Denver International Airport is ready to remove another big chunk of its money-sucking automated baggage system.
The airport has nailed down an agreement with two companies to demolish some of the remnants of the system, which was riddled with problems and cost overruns. The system even became the butt of a rash of jokes for David Letterman and Jay Leno, and Harvard Business School used the bungled project as a case study.
The system has already cost close to $700 million by some estimates, and DIA could spend hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars more to remove it.
The four-year ...