Originally Posted by
DrAlex
That's very interesting - I didn't know that was even a rare occurrence at SFO. That probably explains what happened to a boarding area full of SEA-bound pax in Dec. I was boarding a flight to SAN and I heard the overhead talking about a plane in the international A area and something about buses... I was glad I wasn't on that flight, but maybe the experience was not terrible!?
I've landed with Air New Zealand at SFO one time 45 minutes early to find our gate occupied by an Air India plane. At T-0 (the AI plane's scheduled departure) it pushed back then taxied back to the gate, parking up for another 30 minutes. We arrived 15 minutes later at the terminal, erasing our 45 minutes early and finally disembarking an hour and a half later 45 minutes late.