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Old Jul 29, 2020 | 12:30 pm
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Originally Posted by dinoscool3
I believe ALB is (one of) the last US airports to have a jetway for both the forward and rear doors. They’re used by WN.
The airport has since retired them circa last December.

They go back to the early 2000s as part of a trial. WN also had them at AUS/DAL IIRC but soon got rid of them. ALB kept theirs because they were owned/installed by ALB rather than WN. They were modified for the 738s but started to reach the of their service life and the airport decided not to replace them. They were only used at the cockpit's discretion and towards the end they weren't really used because of crews unfamiliarity with them. But boy, did they speed up deplaning. During boarding I remember them being a pain as you would have pax board using the rear door and then try to sit in row 1.
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