YYZ Airside Bus
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May 16, 2019, 1:15 pm
#17
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Anyone else have recent experiences of flying AC mainline or ACr into YYZ and being forced to deplane on the apron and onto a bus?
This has happened to me on a few occasions over the past decade and prior (not including when the IFT was in use for international arrivals, before hammerhead was fully opened), so I won't be joining others here with arms flailing and hair on fire (yet).
This has happened to me on a few occasions over the past decade and prior (not including when the IFT was in use for international arrivals, before hammerhead was fully opened), so I won't be joining others here with arms flailing and hair on fire (yet).
May 17, 2019, 6:36 am
#18
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Couple of weeks back my YHZ-YYZ flight ended up parking in the wilderness and then we took a bus. Made for a tighter connection to RDU but at least I was on first bus. The pilot described it as "deplaning just like in the caribbean but without the weather"
May 17, 2019, 8:35 am
#19
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Zone boarding is silly with buses. If it is something other than a CRJ, you should have stairs on both the front and rear of the bird. People get off the bus through multiple doors and scramble to the appropriate door.
May 17, 2019, 11:30 am
#20
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I've seen that too and it works better than single door. At least if you are in Zone 1!
May 17, 2019, 12:23 pm
#21
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Whether it's YYZ or AC's fault that they can't manage this however, I'm not clear on.
May 17, 2019, 3:40 pm
#22
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Yes, sometimes priority boarding gets their own bus.
Even on AC. For example one data point off the tip of my head, boarding AC811 at IST a few years ago all Zone 1s got their own bus to the apron.
Even on AC. For example one data point off the tip of my head, boarding AC811 at IST a few years ago all Zone 1s got their own bus to the apron.
May 17, 2019, 5:33 pm
#23
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May 17, 2019, 6:05 pm
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May 17, 2019, 11:46 pm
#27
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Out of curiosity, why hasn't AC made all the regional flights use bus gates and simply reallocate the space they used in the satellite terminal to these flights? That way passengers on the larger flights could simply walk on the tarmac to their plane instead of playing musical chairs on a bus! It would seem that inconveniencing 60 passengers on a Q400 flight makes more sense than inconveniencing triple that amount on an A320.
-James
-James
May 18, 2019, 3:13 am
#28
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Out of curiosity, why hasn't AC made all the regional flights use bus gates and simply reallocate the space they used in the satellite terminal to these flights? That way passengers on the larger flights could simply walk on the tarmac to their plane instead of playing musical chairs on a bus! It would seem that inconveniencing 60 passengers on a Q400 flight makes more sense than inconveniencing triple that amount on an A320.
-James
-James
Or did you mean the Infield Terminal which is currently served by buses from Terminal 3?
Last edited by smallmj; May 18, 2019 at 3:16 am Reason: change wording to sound slightly less like an insufferable know-it-all
May 18, 2019, 5:39 am
#29
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-James
May 18, 2019, 5:56 am
#30
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I meant the former (i.e. the gates at the ends of T1 where you can walk on the tarmac to your prop plane. Respectfully disagree with you on your assessment having recently travelled through London City. They manage to stack up several regionals A319 jets on their tiny apron and still manage to let passengers deplane and walk on the apron to the terminal. This is what their apron looks like on a good day.
