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.
Even if all the A32X aircraft are handled from remote gates exclusively, there are simply not enough gates to allow all widebody flights to not need bus gates. This is especially the case now and for the recent past due to several passenger boarding bridge equipped gates being out of service due to maintenance works in the apron.
Originally Posted by
FlyingScientist
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?
For the most part air traffic control try to accommodate aircraft to the more convenient runway for their gates, not both runways are open all the times though. There is regular scheduled maintenance where the airport reverts to single runway operations several times per week and there are also periods where the closures are more frequent e.g. later this month.