Originally Posted by
BD1959
The *only* downside for me was the use of a remote gate for boarding the A319 - on a very quiet Saturday afternoon - I guess AY don't make space at the non-Schengen gates for narrowbodies if they can park a WB there for the day.
The reason for using remote stands on narrow-body flights to LHR is that if the plane arrives from a Schengen destination, it can't be parked on a non-Schengen gate.