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Fighting for the best place in the apron bus

Wednesday, June 23. 2010

A few weeks ago i wrote about this strange behaviour of airline passenger to storm the aircraft as there would be no reserved seats in it or no kind request to start boarding with the rows in the back of the aircraft.

There is another interesting behaviour: As i'm traveling to the smaller airports with smaller aircrafts quite frequently (Canadair, Embraer or Dash-8 ... not capable to use a gangway), apron-parking is something quite normal for me.

You aren't allowed to walk over the apron, so they use busses to shuttle you to the aircraft. And here the strange behavior starts: No matter how many seats in the bus are still free, everyone tries to stand near the doors. Even when those spaces are overcrowded nobody starts to move into the aisles of the bus except the room is that overcrowded that people are forced to move into the aisle.

I assume airline passengers would still fight to be first in the row or at near as possible to the exists of the bus when 10 passengers are booked for a A380 flight.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in Aviation, Business Travel, English at 22:42 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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There is one issue that may be the cause for both; especially in smaller crafts, there is not much room in the overhead bins.
This means that even if you have a seat reservation, you'll have to stick your hand luggage between your legs for the duration of flight if you come too late and all the bins are taken.
Or you have to search the entire craft then, to find some space somewhere - in any case it's simpler to be early enough to have bins free...

#1 slovon on 2010-06-24 06:12 (Reply)

Ist doch eine logische Konsequenz, oder? Wer als erster aus dem Bus raus ist, ist auch als erster im Flieger.

#2 Patrick (Homepage) on 2010-06-24 09:14 (Reply)

Warum zum Henker will man da als erster drin sein ? lach

#3 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2010-06-24 10:00 (Reply)

Wie slovon schon schrieb ... Platz fürs Handgepäck ist mit der einzige "vernünftige" Grund. Der smarte Häufig- bis Vielflieger nutzt dann aber Delivery at Aircraft und/oder hat vorher die Buchungslage geprüft, um abzuschätzen ob der Platz fürs Handgepäck eng wird oder die Maschine eh halb leer rumfliegt.

#3.1 Tobias Scherbaum (Homepage) on 2010-06-24 18:57 (Reply)

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