Originally Posted by
AlanInDC
I have a definite dislike of bus gates. I'd rather wait on the plane. It is one of the negatives when flying to Europe. Especially thinking of Frankfurt, where you may well get a bus gate on a trans-atlantic flight. It is boggling to me that such large planes could end up at a bus gate.
As old HKG at Kai Tak has demonstrated, it is a more efficient use of airport land when the heavies are parked in a parking lot fashion and pax bused to the terminal versus building more gates, jet-bridges plus all the ingress/egress taxiways and tarmac.
But many of the US cities, airport land is not at a premium.