Comments on: Jet Bridge Blues

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:01:43 +0000

The small new airport terminal at Paine Field in Everett near Seattle (now for some reason branded Seattle Paine Field) has glass jet bridges. I suspect as it was designed after the fire rules were loosened to allow transparent bridges that they decided that the smaller cheaper option was best. However it has only two of them and the airport handles less than 30 flights per day.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2023/07/18/paine-field-airport-gets-new-name.html

By: Stephen Geis

Stephen Geis — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:58:43 +0000

Flanders and Swann were indeed really funny (the Reluctant Cannibal is my favorite), but I don’t recall the description of forklift boarding.

By: Stephen Geis

Stephen Geis — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:51:18 +0000

Easyjet, like RyanAir, frequently uses drive-up stairways well away from the main terminal building. They embark or deplane even a small aircraft like an A320 using two doors, which speeds things up. I’ve always figured that they pay a lower fee for not using gate with Jetway. And while on the subject of trademarks, why do almost all those European and mideast airports use COBUS busses to carry passengers, packed more tightly than on a Tokyo subway, to and from the plane?

By: Elise Elderkin

Elise Elderkin — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:37:04 +0000

I’m one of those people for whom stairs (recently used at Zurich) are a nightmare: with a carry-on bag, arthritic knees and a walking-stick, I always have to ask a crew member to carry my bag. Bloody awkward!
WHERE I live in England HSBC is a major High Street brand and familiar to most, though most probably wouldn’t know what the initials stand for.

By: Pierre Gromellon

Pierre Gromellon — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:40:58 +0000

I Wonder why in SFO connecting to the jet bridges is taking so Mich time . Never see that elsewhere. Plane was an Airbus 350-900.

By: Tom Ryan

Tom Ryan — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 18:04:43 +0000

Flew on Ryanair a couple times last week. No jet bridges

By: Staley

Staley — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 14:05:16 +0000

I just flew to the new airport terminal in Kansas City. They have glass-walled jetbridges – the only ones I’ve ever seen in the United States. Very nice!

By: Gimlet Winglet

Gimlet Winglet — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:21:24 +0000

I should propbably wait for one of the ask me anything posts, but this experience struck me: I recently flew SFO to europe, and Frankfurt was involved as one of intermediate airports.

Departing SFO, it seemed the taxiing was infinite. I was like, they can’t taxi all the way to LHR but they sure seem like they’re trying. From simple observation taxi speed was about 15 mph. Later that day, or perhaps the next day, my flight landing in Frankfurt taxied further and faster, maybe 30-40 mph by the eye test.

So posing my question to the pilot, is there an ordained limit on taxi speeds? Does it vary by airport? By conditions? Because the frankfurt plane (airbus 320Neo) was hauling ass, while the SFO plane (777-200X) was creeping.

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:51:09 +0000

I fly virtually only EasyJet (A320) these days, & climb stairs more often than not.
The other day I was interested to note that the passengers with mobility problems were placed aboard one of those rise-up-like-Lazarus contraptions used for catering, etc. They were the first to board, through the right-front door.

By: Leonard Lane

Leonard Lane — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 16:08:51 +0000

The Amarillo Texas airport has glass jet bridges:

https://airlinegeeks.com/2019/01/27/america-turns-to-the-clear-alternative-to-steel-sided-jet-bridges/