Originally Posted by
LarryJ
Where have you seen this? I can't recall ever seeing that happen.
EWR. Back in the day I flew DCA-EWR frequently and the flight was almost always delayed due to flow control and arrivals management, and when we finally landed, you would see an endless lineup of departing flights, and a few times we had to extend the landing roll to find an empty taxiway slot to turn onto, or we turned off, joined a parallel taxiway and had to line up with others for a mad dash sprint across the departure runway, which sometimes we missed if we were at the end of the line and had to wait for the next gap.
Even back then I couldn't figure out the logic for not just landing on the inside and taxi-ing right off onto the ramp.