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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 11:53 pm
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Trumpkin
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
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Originally Posted by pbl22
It's very frustrating when coming in late on a TT around midnight and then having to wait 10 minutes while they try to find someone to operate it.
Better than one trip to WLG last year. We taxied to gate 10 and the airbridge broke, so they spent about 10 minutes trying to fix it, then they were trying to get some stairs for 10 minutes but they gave up trying to find 737 stairs and eventually decided to taxi to another gate, finally getting off the plane 30 minutes later.

A few people were starting to think that using the slides might be easier!
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