Baggage belts and the customs halls have also been upgraded.

In 1988, smaller adjustments, including new washrooms and longer baggage belts, were installed at the terminal.

Level 1 (Baggage Claim) contains all inbound baggage facilities and baggage belts.

Delays for Americans, Too Americans face the same crowds at baggage belts and in customs halls on their return from vacations abroad.

Outside the main departure lounge, there is the arrivals hall with baggage belt, restaurant and the Isle of Man Welcome Centre.

Like all new structures in Cairo, terminal two is prematurely aged: baggage belts creak, public address systems shriek with feedback, dust hangs in the air.

Mr. Rogers said he wanted to make sure that the space, with a vista nearly two-thirds of a mile long, was not dominated by shops and escalators and baggage belts.

From 6 to 8 P.M., Kennedy must accommodate 60 to 80 flights an hour, most of them on jumbo jets whose passengers sorely overload the airport's terminals and baggage belts.

But 100 yards away, hundreds of other travelers sit in semidarkness, perched on disused baggage belts and plastic chairs, eating airline food off plastic trays and waiting for their 40 days in confinement to end.