Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
● Everyone is unhappy with the number of flights which require bus gates. This should be alleviated when the new terminal is finished. Cabin crew all think that allocating widebodies to bus gates is just plain silly. They should be for 32x aircraft.
Something I failed to understand is why gates are allocated so that planes have to taxi from the western side to the eastern runway and from the eastern side to the western runway at the same time. I would assume that flightpaths should not cross, but why are gates not swapped?