Originally Posted by
ps107
Then there's the 20 minutes standing inside the bus parked by the aircraft waiting for the cleaners to finish preparing the plane.
I had one where the bus took us to the wrong plane. 10 am, blazing hot on the runway. Passengers flooded up the stairs only to be stopped by FA at the top. Took 3 ground staff in high-vis with a walkie-talkie 15 minutes to figure out that the next step was "everyone come down the stairs and get back onto the bus."
Originally Posted by
ps107
A friend had to disembark from an A380 by bus after the ~16 hour flight from AKL once. That would have been fun!
I often get it on the 14 hr SYD-DXB.
Originally Posted by
BadoRas
In my experience, arrivals from Africa almost always end up at a remote stand. ...
Despite the arrival time, I have often wondered if there's an element of "send the African arrivals to the remote stand" to avoid doing it to other arrivals containing people who Emirates prefers not to annoy.
I often get it on the 14 hr SYD-DXB.
And GVA-DXB. So not, it's not just Africa.