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Old Jul 22, 2019 | 3:52 pm
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Often1
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Originally Posted by Efrem
This wouldn't happen in July in the northern hemisphere, but in really cold winter weather, on the first flight to arrive at a gate in the early morning, I have waited as much as half an hour for jetway wheels to be unfrozen so it could be moved into position. Much of the delay was the time it took to locate the unfreezing equipment and (at 5 am) someone who knew how to operate it, and get both of them to our gate.
I've waited plenty of times for a jetbridge driver to show up, for a trainee to maneuver the jetway, and for someone to open the door. Not worth the bother at a 2:30 delay, but at 2:55, those 5 minutes might take one over 3:00 (or 4:00 for the EUR 600).
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