Originally Posted by
onaswan
Is there a rationale behind sending passengers out to the B and C gates (I'm talking T5 here) only to put them on busses. It happened twice recently - this week for the SFO flight for instance. On that occasion there were free slots on the terminal building. The only reason I can fathom is a need to disperse pax from the A terminal AND the aircraft, for one reason or another, is parked at a remote stand.
I am not BA staff. I agree it's the worst of all worlds, it doesn't happen that often, there are 2 reasons for this. The main reason is that the main secondary security team and DHS representative will based in B for the USA destinations; but it also happens when A10 gets overloaded - not so much with passengers (though they will probably feel it is), but the bus access, drive-through and pick-up points are restricted - so at a certain point the whole operation can gum up. SFO has 2 flights (usually), one before the peak, and one after the peak. If the peak has been difficult then I can see why 287 ends up at B or C as a bus pick-up.