Walking the new gang plank ...

[themanfromoz]

Arrived on a Dash-8 from Canberra into Sydney on 1 Feb. As usual it was announced we'd be taking 'forward stairs" to deplane.
Amazingly we had to deplane via what seemed to be a combination of a standard aerobridge and a 'new fangled' gang plank.
10-15 minutes after the seat belt signs went off we are still waiting to leave. It took that long, including 3 times dropping/raising the gang plank to get us moving off the aircraft.
Very third-world as the ground crew seemed to have absolutely no idea.

 

[Fifa]

Hey - we had the new aerobridge setup into SYD from CBR on Friday .
Didn't take quite as long as you, but took longer to deplane than a 737. I must say it was nice to walk straight into the terminal though.

 

[markis10]

After 6 months they are still having problems?

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....ntas-trialling-aerobridges-dash-8s-52321.html

 

[Fifa]

Wow - 6 mths in operation! Maybe I'm lucky I have missed this "new" aerobridge until now!