Originally Posted by
AKCuisine
The February issue of the AS inflight magazine contained an interesting comment on the CEO's page.
"Quick and early boarding, and
dual-door deplaning (which you'll see more of soon), get you on and off the airplane quickly."
To read Brad Tilden's full monthly column, check the online
Alaska Air Inflight Magazine and scroll to page 9. The "dual-door deplaning" line is on the bottom left side of the page.
Does anyone know more about this?
I'm all for exiting in a timely manner, but I will avoid taking the back stairs down to the tarmac ... almost nothing will get this gal on a combi these days.
They've done it a few times here in SLC last summer, but now that we're in the -400 and -700 range more often than the -800 and -900s, its not been as big of a priority. And it was confusing people in the gate area. Rows 1-20 through A8, and 20-36 through A7...