danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Arthur.
Where are you on the transport network?
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
A number of airports such as Amsterdam and Barcelona have areas dedicated to low cost flights and they boarding from ground level as these carriers won’t pay for the use of air bridges. Ryanair doesn’t even pay for steps, their aircraft deploy their own ones.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
oh.
i thought the pilot had dropped a bollock and ended up at the coach station...
do they charge passengers extra to use them?
teuchter
je suis teuchter
How do people who can't climb stairs access these services, do they use a moveable lift or something?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
They normally have a scissors lift for wheel chair users and other people that can't walk that lifts up to the Starboard front door, air stairs and jetways normally connect to the port.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Usually there is a lift as per A380’s post, sometimes they just carry the poor sod up, which is very undignified. The treatment of disabled passengers when flying is as poor as most other forms of transport.
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BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
It was Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN). I'm sorry, I should have added more details.
T & P
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You should be sorry
It is a sad state of affairs when (some) airlines resort to such cost cutting tactics when clearly it is perfectly viable to just pay for the jet bridge fees like hundreds of airlines do.
Mind you, even flag carrying airlines such as BA resort to cheap cost saving antics. Not necessarily doing away with jet bridges, but they will still dock the plane at the extreme end of the terminal because it’s cheaper than doing so near the middle of it. Whenever I fly to Madrid, most piers at T4 are empty yet BA invariably ends up docked at the far end of what is a bloody long terminal.
I mean, how much more expensive might docking somewhere central be, especially if it’s quiet and most gates are empty? Bahnhof Strasse , I know this is not in your line of work, but any insider knowledge to share? I can understand EasyJet using remote gates, and they sure as fuck do at Gatwick, but can’t BA really afford to use a gate near the middle of the terminal?
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
EasyJet use a remote terminal at Barcelona.
Interesting query about the fees for docking. I'd never considered that might be the case. Last 2 BA flights to Gatwick involved about a mile and a half walk to passport control.
Interesting query about the fees for docking. I'd never considered that might be the case. Last 2 BA flights to Gatwick involved about a mile and a half walk to passport control.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
No idea if it costs more to park in the middle of the terminal or not, would suspect there are quite a few factors in play* as to where you can park, so maybe not.
Have had quite a few long haul flights from Heathrow T5 with BA that used the dreaded gate A10, the bus gate. Purely cos they built T5 with too few gates. Lufthansa whisks their first class pax from a private terminal to the aircraft in a Porsche, Air France does likewise in Paris. BA makes them jostle their way on to a packed bus to stand on as it lurches around the apron, then join a long queue for the single set of steps, which is pretty fucking ropey.
*e.g. Most airports that can take an A380 only have a very limited number of gates that can handle them, so for like Emirates that only uses them for Heathrow they will only use those few gates...
Have had quite a few long haul flights from Heathrow T5 with BA that used the dreaded gate A10, the bus gate. Purely cos they built T5 with too few gates. Lufthansa whisks their first class pax from a private terminal to the aircraft in a Porsche, Air France does likewise in Paris. BA makes them jostle their way on to a packed bus to stand on as it lurches around the apron, then join a long queue for the single set of steps, which is pretty fucking ropey.
*e.g. Most airports that can take an A380 only have a very limited number of gates that can handle them, so for like Emirates that only uses them for Heathrow they will only use those few gates...
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Never had the dreaded A10 gate (you poor luv). T5 is excellent. Bit of a way to the car park like. Do you get a Porsche for that Bahnhof Strasse ?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Never use the car parks at Heathrow, cheaper to get an Addison Lee. A car to Heathrow is ~£120 if it takes 4 of us and luggage, get an Uber back to home for ~£75. I do check the parking prices, for our next one the short-stay at terminal 2 wants £370 for two weeks, the long-stay with bus transfers costs £220 and would double our journey time, hence the need for the short stay ones...
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That’s what I have always heard, though could be bollocks. I guess at very busy terminals it’s not so obvious, but the T4 satellite building in Madrid must have been 10% occupied at best every single time I’ve used it, and very rarely the assigned gate is anywhere near the middle of the building. Sometimes it’s not just a far away gate but the very last one. The only alternative explanation I can think of is trying to
i am sure I have read something somewhere in the past about some airports charging more for ‘premium’ position gates, though I can’t find anything online now.
But without knowing the inner workings of any airport’s business model, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t offer different packages to try to extra coinage. When I landed at Gatwick last Saturday night, we docked at the satellite extension round building thingy and it took no less than 10-12 minutes at fast pace to reach passport control. As I was miffed about the long walk I kept an eye on empty gates as we walked through corridors, and easily two thirds of all gates along the way were empty. There are no operational reasons I can think of for an airplane to be assigned pretty much the furthest away gate from the hub of the terminal when there are dozens of empty gates much closer.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Oh, forgot about these, some years ago I did use T5's pod parking, no Porsche to the terminal, but pod-pod-pod...
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
Waiting for R691.
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
I used one once and someone got in behind me and tried to rob me. Fortunately I was able to kick him in the pods.
WTF you doing round my "hood"-ish?
I'm guessing you were coming from the Czech Rep? That is the branch line to Straubing, famous for a beer festival and a high security prison.
Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
WTF you doing round my "hood"-ish?
I'm guessing you were coming from the Czech Rep? That is the branch line to Straubing, famous for a beer festival and a high security prison.
Yeah, from Czechia to Schwandorf, then a 218 on RE2 and I clocked the Sparky forward from Regensburg was a new one, so there I was. Couple of Augustiner Helles from the kebab shop down the road and I'm now on the ICE to Bankfurt and home tomorrow.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Paris Gare de Lyon. Last time I walked through here it was all hoarded off for renovation. I'm a big fan of this kind of thing, a giant mural depicting scenes from the country from Paris down to the Mediterranean. Compare this to what they've just done at Euston, a giant illuminated display of similar length but purely to blast advertising at travellers. Shame on them. I hate the degradation of these communal spaces that are part of our transport network, probably decided upon by people who don't use them and don't care about the experience of those who do.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
Windsor & Eton railway station.
This is the second of 3 trains we're having to take to travel from Staines to Maidenhead where we've left the car.
We walked from Maidenhead to Staines along the Thames Path. Which took us 2 days because we have our 6 year old with us.
This is the second of 3 trains we're having to take to travel from Staines to Maidenhead where we've left the car.
We walked from Maidenhead to Staines along the Thames Path. Which took us 2 days because we have our 6 year old with us.
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
Now at Slough
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Windsor & Eton Central's platforms are well shabby, considering how un-shabby the station is.
