I'd think if you're going to load from the front and back like that, you'd want the bridge to extend straight and then swing back around the wing as opposed to have it go over the wing.
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I'd think if you're going to load from the front and back like that, you'd want the bridge to extend straight and then swing back around the wing as opposed to have it go over the wing.
This.
But your terminal has to be designed with that in mind, which the A pier was not... a jet bridge that swung so far out would encroach on the adjacent gate. The cost-benefit of building your concourse like that would never hold up.
To speed up boarding it'd be easier to just enforce the damn rules on the size of carry-on's.
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We boarded from front and back in Kona. Just had use stairs. I suppose that might be bad in winter but I've done the tarmac boarding in winter in Edmonton and Toronto as well as Calgary. Why not let people down the stairs to outside and then back up boarding stairs?
I recall reading Westjet stopped the second bridge boarding when a gate agent hit a wing with the bridge.
Air Canada 847 has just landed at Toronto, a Boeing 777 from Munich. Significance? The retirement flight for Captain Judy Cameron, the first female airline pilot in Canada.
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Captain Judy Cameron, now 61, will take her final flight as a commercial pilot for a major airline, a job she was the first woman in Canada to hold. When she taxis her Air Canada flight from Munich into the gate at Pearson, it will mark the end of a trailblazing, 37-year career that ended the male monopoly of the cockpit.
Click here for a few more high res pics of the arrival from Tom Podolec.
Click here for a bit ATC audio from the approach via LiveATC.net (not all of it could be captured), her first officer was also female and is the one on the radio.
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Is there a way to tell when an airport wont bring up a gate checked piece of luggage?
We just came back from Europe and transited through LHR and they didnt bring up the stroller to the gate.
We arent seasoned travellers but LHR is so far the only airport that doesnt bring it to the gate. There were 6 passengers with gate checked strollers and none made it to the gate.
We have gone through AMS and FRA to Europe and IAH and DFW to Central/South American and there has never been a problem stroller arrives every time. Twice through LHR and both times the stroller doesnt arrive.
Other than the crazy long walk to the AC gate I actually like London but unless we are travelling to England in the future we will avoid LHR like the plague which means we will be avoiding AC for travel as the FRA transit times are too long.
Looks like KLM gets out 1.2 yearly flights to Europe.
I always wondered why they bothered putting bag tags on the stroller even when we are gate checking it, I guess know I know why.
Is there a way to tell when an airport wont bring up a gate checked piece of luggage?
We just came back from Europe and transited through LHR and they didnt bring up the stroller to the gate.
We arent seasoned travellers but LHR is so far the only airport that doesnt bring it to the gate. There were 6 passengers with gate checked strollers and none made it to the gate.
We have gone through AMS and FRA to Europe and IAH and DFW to Central/South American and there has never been a problem stroller arrives every time. Twice through LHR and both times the stroller doesnt arrive.
Other than the crazy long walk to the AC gate I actually like London but unless we are travelling to England in the future we will avoid LHR like the plague which means we will be avoiding AC for travel as the FRA transit times are too long.
Looks like KLM gets out 1.2 yearly flights to Europe.
I always wondered why they bothered putting bag tags on the stroller even when we are gate checking it, I guess know I know why.
You sure it was not brought up to the other side of the gate?
