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First Airport With Jetways?

Himmat01 From India, joined Dec 2004, 1027 posts, RR: 6
Posted (7 years 7 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 2084 times:

Which was the first airport in the world to use jetways?

Thanks in advance.
Himmat

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IBERIA747 From Spain, joined Aug 2003, 1825 posts, RR: 62
Reply 1, posted (7 years 7 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 2057 times:

No idea, but I have seen pictures of jetways being used at AMS as early as 1971.

Btw the design was exactly the same design they still have today.

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ZRH From Switzerland, joined Nov 1999, 5540 posts, RR: 40
Reply 2, posted (7 years 7 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1990 times:

Quoting IBERIA747 (Reply 1):
No idea, but I have seen pictures of jetways being used at AMS as early as 1971.

I think there are airports which had them much earlier than 1971. Zurich was for sure not amongst the first airports at all, but got the first jetways in 1976.

ANCFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (7 years 7 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1991 times:

I believe it was UA at LAX . . . . seems I saw a picture in a book by Cleary on the history of UA . . . . and that was the caption.

IBERIA747 From Spain, joined Aug 2003, 1825 posts, RR: 62
Reply 4, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 1928 times:

Quoting ZRH (Reply 2):
I think there are airports which had them much earlier than 1971.

Most probably. However, those jetways at AMS could have been installed before 1971 as well.

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ToTheStars From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 262 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1924 times:

TWA Terminal 5 at JFK was the first airport terminal designed with jetways.

TWA-Airline To the Stars

ZKEOJ From New Zealand, joined Feb 2005, 924 posts, RR: 7
Reply 6, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1853 times:

Quoting ToTheStars (Reply 5):
TWA Terminal 5 at JFK was the first airport terminal designed with jetways

Do you know when that was? - just out of interest....

The first airport installing "glass" jetways was fairly recently at CGN (just a few years ago).

Cheers
micha

Se210 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 112 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1842 times:

Here's a postcard from circa 1962 at ORD showing a UA B720 connected to a "Jet-Away":

http://leo.lunarpages.com/~airlin3/airliners.net/discussion_64388_jetways_ord_1962.jpg

Source: Curteichcolor 2DK-1421
The "2DK" signifies the postcard was printed in 1962

HT From Germany, joined May 2005, 6473 posts, RR: 27
Reply 8, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 1818 times:

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Quoting ZKEOJ (Reply 6):
The first airport installing "glass" jetways was fairly recently at CGN (just a few years ago).

HAJ´s T3 (or "C") opened with 8 glass-jetways before Expo2000.
IIRC by that time gates 4 and 5 at T1 ("A") already had glass-jetways as replacement of older, solid models.
-HT

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Timz From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 6468 posts, RR: 8
Reply 9, posted (7 years 6 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1755 times:

Quoting ToTheStars (Reply 5):
TWA Terminal 5 at JFK was the first airport terminal designed with jetways.

Maybe so, but it wasn't the first one to have them. I think United at SFO was using them in 1960-- by 1961 for sure.

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