More WN testing of front and rear boarding
Nov 14, 2018, 10:23 am
#16
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But AA doesn't have open seating like WN. You know someone is going to flip out about "their" (economy, all seat are economy despite what you might think from reading some of the seat stuff on this site) seat being taken by someone behind them that didn't pay for EBCI or BS.
(b) Even then, it was far more common to deboard using the front and rear stairs than to board
(c) It was also far more common to deboard at the rear when traveling on planes with built-in rear stairs, such as 727s and MD-80s (though I swore I deboarded a US Shuttle flight at LGA using airstairs).
Almost twenty years ago, I was on an EasyJet flight from BCN to LTN that boarded using the front and rear stairs, but, again, no assigned seats.
Nov 14, 2018, 11:34 am
#18
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It's not WN, but I don't believe there is a single jetway for G4's operation at PGD.
Nov 14, 2018, 11:40 am
#19
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Nov 14, 2018, 11:49 am
#20
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"Passengers at PGD board an aircraft by walking along the ground-level and up a gently-sloping ramp. If it’s raining while boarding, airline staff accommodates passengers by providing ponchos."
Nov 14, 2018, 12:14 pm
#22
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I experienced this twice last year at FLL. The BS crowd wasn't super happy when you have pre-boarders mucking up the lines and A50 was getting to a seat before A1. Given that FLL tends to have more pre-boarders than most other airports, WN needs to think through this process a bit more.
Nov 14, 2018, 12:51 pm
#24
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Nov 15, 2018, 7:11 pm
#26
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Rear-door (de)planing sucks at SJC because of the two flights of narrow stairs; I tried it once then got stuck behind the
Nov 16, 2018, 7:26 pm
#27
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I flew on Monday and saw this at SJC. I don't know. It probably speeds things up a bit, but it will not be popular during bad weather and it also requires people to go down the stairs and then up the stairs to the jetway. The gate agent was explaining to me that "security" continuously walks the passengers from the aircraft to the stairway. I did not see anything taped off. Seems like an inefficient use of people.
This was an early morning flight (the first one of the day), but a 737-700.
This was an early morning flight (the first one of the day), but a 737-700.
Nov 16, 2018, 7:30 pm
#28
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Huh. There's no such protections at BUR, and if it weren't for the bag-truck guys I could have probably run off into that active taxiway (yet you never hear of that kind of thing happening). You can get close enough to the engine's exhaust to feel the heat from it, too.