Originally Posted by
Waterhorse
It’s is strange that Ryanair do not suffer from this steps and jetty nonsense, but they have Airstairs on their aircraft and are therefore not held hostage by the hide bound, job demarcation issues that BA suffer.
Ryanair, it's worth noting, have airstairs only on the front and I don't believe the BA airbuses (or any Airbus?) have that option. I'd argue that BA could do front-and-back boarding at LHR by using the jetty/node stairs and then a walk over to the back door for those who can/want and are sat at the back. It's done in GLA or other places in Scotland after all. And I agree, a set of steps is a set of steps and no matter what they should be used by customers.