Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
Incidentally, and depending which stand is used, it sometimes saves 5 or 10 minutes of taxiing to the runway if a remote stand is used. Moving off an airbridge is a bit like playing 3 dimensional chess.
Fully admit I am being a terrible pedant here but unless BA are introducing a fleet of F35s in addition to the A350 later this year, surely it's still just two dimensional. I can't recall any flight I was on getting airborne until at least a little further from the gate ;-)