Originally Posted by
angry_flyer
I'm not going to going to address stupid answers such as "you just have".
"You asked the pilot this then?"
No, and I do not need to be a mathematician to find out the answer by myself. It is common sense. I know the schedule, I know the airport, and I know the aircraft registration number which I could even verify afterwards. They are not going to keep an aircraft overnight in a foreign airport parked at the gate and docked to the jet bridge for 10 hours (and being charged for that).
Airlines use tugs to move airplanes around the airport. Pilots don't valet park the aircraft.