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Old Aug 24, 2020 | 7:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Textile
I've noticed a distinct effort at EWR to space out planes across the terminals -- of course it is my assumption was that UA op's was working to keep people distanced and I've appreciated the effort - maybe it's the same at SFO? Or perhaps I'm attributing more credit to UA than it deserves lol
I get everyone's replies in normal times, but it just struck me as very odd when traffic is a fraction of what it used to be. Why not consolidate, for efficiencies in staffing etc? Or put it another way, why ground-staff a lone domestic flight in G when there wasn't another domestic or intl flight to be seen. Textile has an interesting point. I've noticed the same thing at EWR, walking past a dozen empty gates in between active ones. IAD and ORD on the other hand seem to have had much busier, compact in ops during these times.
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