I seem to recall using door 1R to board an AA widebody (probably a DC-10) at JFK within the last 10-15 years. Does anyone else recall doing so? It was a little disorienting: I seem to recall commenting to the FA that the plane was backwards!
Originally Posted by dchristiva
Also mildly OT, and I'm sure someone else can enlighten the group on current standards since I haven't flown the LGA-DCA shuttle since 9/11, but previously when the weather was good, pax had the option of deplaning from the forward and rear doorways (by stairs from the aft and jetbridge from the front). I don't know if this is still the case.
When US and DL were both using 727s on the LGA-BOS and LGA-DCA shuttles, they oftentimes would drop the back stairs and allow passengers to disembark out the back. Now both airlines routinely pull up stairs to the back left door (unless I happen to be sitting back there, in which case they use the front door only).