Originally Posted by
Prospero
From the photo in post 1, we can see the BA aircraft parked at a jetty so I guess poses the question, why was the BA aircraft not allocated a jetty in the Non-Schengen area? Is there a shortage of such gates at BUD?
The jetty is in the non Schengen area, in facts we were parked next to an El Al 737 (duly attached to its jetty) and indeed we walked into the building and then upstairs into the corridor where we would’ve eventually gotten to had we disembarked from the jetty.
There were another 3 empty stands in the non Schengen area... and it’s not as if this was one occasion, it’s now the norm based on my experience. I’d be ready to bet it’s to do with handling costs, usually the jetway is priced differently from simple steps. For instance Ryanair doesn’t use it for their operation out of Malpensa’s T1.
Originally Posted by
Mike P
Degrade is a very strange choice of word in the context of what has changed.
My bad, English is my third language and “degrade” sounds a lot like the word for downgrade in my native tongue. A case of “false friends” I guess. Apologies.