Rear Door Boarding/Disembarking at All Ports

[Buzzard]

What happens when rows 16-20 use the rear stairs for boarding and rows 21-end use the aerobridge because the FAs say they can? Surely it can't speed anything up when people are jostling to move in different directions along the aisle.

Had a similar scenario on Air Berlin with pax boarding from both ends. It was a total fiasco as rear boarding pax were trying to make their way up the fron and front pax were heading down back :evil:

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Are there restrictions on when passengers can be moving around on the tarmac (albeit within defined lines)?

I am sure (but not certain) that pax were disembarking a QF flight at the gate in CNS, including from rear stairs, at the same time as the VA 737 in the gate right alongside was pushing back. Just remember thinking that felt odd.

Rear stairs boarding is meant to cease if there's an arrival or departure on an adjacent bay. When you've got a refuelling truck hooked up to the starboard wing of an aircraft next door the GSE (tugs etc) have to take a wide berth to go around the truck when loading the rear cargo hold so there's not a lot of leeway for wayward pax. After witnessing the way some group pax disembark, a Border Collie in a hi-viz vest would be a good addition to the customer service team.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I would rather airlines dedicate the extra resources needed to position the rear stairs and supervising passenger flow to services which might be considered more 'essential' - like enforcing priority boarding, or transferring baggage between connecting flights on separate tickets, or delivering bags to the reclaim quicker, or ensuring priority bags are sorted.

 

[basso]

Rear stairs boarding is meant to cease if there's an arrival or departure on an adjacent bay. When you've got a refuelling truck hooked up to the starboard wing of an aircraft next door the GSE (tugs etc) have to take a wide berth to go around the truck when loading the rear cargo hold so there's not a lot of leeway for wayward pax. After witnessing the way some group pax disembark, a Border Collie in a hi-viz vest would be a good addition to the customer service team.

I wonder what it says when Jetstar and Virgin passengers can cope with rear stairs, but it seems all too hard for Qantas passengers.

 

[basso]

I like enforcing priority boarding, or transferring baggage between connecting flights on separate tickets,

. Hardly essential services,

or delivering bags to the reclaim quicker, or ensuring priority bags are sorted

Ok. You got me on that one.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

. Hardly essential services,

yeah - I was aware of that when writing but couldn't think of a better alternative... I guess 'the basics' would be more accurate than 'essential'

 

[serfty]

It does make disembarking quicker but you just wait longer at the carousel.

What's a 'carousel'?


(Truth be known, I did wait beside a baggage delivery device in the USA earlier this month but I was transporting some wine from Oz to NYC - it's the ONLY time I have used such in the last three years.)

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I wonder what it says when Jetstar and Virgin passengers can cope with rear stairs, but it seems all too hard for Qantas passengers.

In the aforementioned scenario of an arrival or departure on an adjacent bay possibly safety rather than vanity.