Originally Posted by Pickles
I think it is a prestige thing. The LHR and JFK flights also get these gates often. I think I can count with the fingers of one hand the times I've flown on a regional that left or arrived on gates 1-4.
Somehow that doesn't seem to hold true for my experiences to LHR... recently, LHR flights have been assigned all the way to gate 40-44 resulting in longer walks! I was sitting in the lounge watching the exact plane [which was to be CX253] being towed from gate 4 to gate 41! Could you imagine how annoyed I was! Instead, the 'prime' gates seem to be allocated for regional - medium flights eg Mumbai/Bangkok/KL etc.... and obviously the N.A. flights... but European flights seem to me as being 'gradually' pushed down the terminal... or it could just be luck... you never know what goes on in the ATC..
Adrien.