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Old Jun 3, 2015 | 9:43 am
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FlyingBear
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Originally Posted by sharon2975
why don't they follow the way it is done in Japan and board from both doors?
United tried this at Denver, up until the back jet bridge had an incident back in 2007.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...maging-dia-jet

United subsequently ended the program. I'm sure after 8 years they probably could have figured out a lot of the bugs, but I'm not sure any airline/airport is willing to take on the cost of upgrading the jet bridges to try another experiment.
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