Originally Posted by
Fiordland
Zone boarding is silly with buses. If it is something other than a CRJ, you should have stairs on both the front and rear of the bird. People get off the bus through multiple doors and scramble to the appropriate door.
Depends on the airline. If the airline provides a separate bus for each zone (or just Z1/J) and stops everyone not in J putting their bags in the overheads, and then one boards after the rest of the plane, with the curtain already closed and completely empty bins, it works fine.
Whether it's YYZ or AC's fault that they can't manage this however, I'm not clear on.