If you look closely, you will see that the airbridge takes a 90 degree turn and heads into the terminal building making it even longer than the longest part seems to suggest. This airbridge is quite a bit longer than the 747 itself!
Are there longer ones out there that I am not aware of?
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WNCrew From United States, joined Jun 2006, 575 posts, RR: 7 Reply 4, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 17950 times:
There's an even longer one I beleive at MDW in Chicago. ATA used to operate out of them, but now I think Airtran took them over, there's two side by side and a sign that reads "No restrooms beyond this point."
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ScottB From United States, joined Jul 2000, 4280 posts, RR: 34 Reply 5, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 17874 times:
Well, there was a temporary three-gate-long airbridge in IAH's Terminal C that was used for a few years while the new Terminal C was under construction. If you look at this location in Google Maps, you'll see the temporary airbridge that, of course, no longer exists with Terminal E now being open.
Leezyjet From United Kingdom (England), joined Oct 2001, 3886 posts, RR: 60 Reply 6, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 17813 times:
That isn't technically an airbridge. The term airbridge normally referrs to the actual moving bit that drives onto the a/c. That part is simply a fixed walkway down to the actual airbridge which will be located between the grey part of the building just visible above the a/c, and the a/c itself.
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Lincoln From United States, joined Nov 2004, 3746 posts, RR: 15 Reply 10, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 17295 times:
Jeez -- at least there are (or appear to be) windows... If it was standard jetbridge/walkway with no natrual light to be seen one might think that when you reached the end of the jetway you were going to pop out at your destination
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Planesarecool From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2001, 3826 posts, RR: 19 Reply 11, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 17157 times:
Quoting Lincoln (Reply 10): Jeez -- at least there are (or appear to be) windows... If it was standard jetbridge/walkway with no natrual light to be seen one might think that when you reached the end of the jetway you were going to pop out at your destination
That's like the one i pointed out at Gatwick. There's no light at all and all you get is a load of HSBC adverts. In fact that's like all the gates at Gatwick, minus about 4 from the south terminal and one from the north terminal, where they have been replaced with windowed air bridges.
Not too bad when you consider that the right parts of the glass walkways are also moving (up and down), to connect to departure or arrival levels.
The China Eastern and Vietnam Airlines planes are connected to the departure level, while the AF 343 is connected to the arrival level.
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FlyDeltaJets From United States, joined Feb 2006, 1242 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 16850 times:
Gate 6 at terminal 7 in JFK is also pretty long. It has to be that way to fit a 747 there next to gate 5
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Zippyjet From United States, joined Sep 2001, 2500 posts, RR: 15 Reply 14, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 15897 times:
Quoting WNCrew (Reply 4): There's an even longer one I beleive at MDW in Chicago. ATA used to operate out of them, but now I think Airtran took them over, there's two side by side and a sign that reads "No restrooms beyond this point."
I don't know of any funky long jet bridge at MDW that we use. Usually, the FL grape vine is busier than the National Enquiror during Britney Spears mud! I'd have heard about it.
Now, check this one out, the mini-me jetway at MIA circa the 1960s and 1970s. Are these still in operation? Any other mini-me jet ways still operating anywhere?
Malaysia From United States, joined Nov 1999, 2874 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 15231 times:
Quoting Zippyjet (Reply 14): Now, check this one out, the mini-me jetway at MIA circa the 1960s and 1970s. Are these still in operation? Any other mini-me jet ways still operating anywhere? confused
DCA still uses them all at the A Gates. they are all around the rotunda.
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Sergeant655 From Canada, joined Jul 2005, 84 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 14224 times:
C/D50 at YVR is long. D54 has a temporart walkway as well as D66 and D67. The one for 66 and 67 is the same walkway but has a wall down the middle to devide the two gate apart and narrows after 67. It isabout the lengtkh of the HKG one from 66 to the terminal. The one for 54 is also about the same length.
Rdwelch From United Kingdom (Wales), joined Oct 2005, 527 posts, RR: 12 Reply 21, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 13312 times:
A24 and A25 at DEN are a hike as well
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717-200 From United States, joined Oct 2000, 601 posts, RR: 4 Reply 22, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 11645 times:
S15 at SEA's South Satellite is quite the long walk. I like to call it the
endless jetway. Asiana uses this jetway for their now 4x weekly SEA-ICN
777-200 flights.
Wingscrubber From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2001, 492 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 11032 times:
Here's a birds eye view of the Hong Kong airbridge courtesy of google earth.
Chase From United States, joined Nov 2005, 960 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 7952 times:
Quoting Zippyjet (Reply 14): I don't know of any funky long jet bridge at MDW that we use.
He/she was referring to gates A4A and A4B at MDW. I haven't been there since the ATA scaleback, so I don't know who is operating these gates now.
However, I wouldn't consider them to be a jetway since that long hallway is stationary and has benches and a CSA desk inside. I'd almost lean more towards calling it concourse D than a jetway, although 1) it's too narrow, 2) it only has 2 gates, and 3) then the ordering of concourses would be D, A, B, C.
Gr8Circle From Canada, joined Dec 2005, 2373 posts, RR: 2 Reply 25, posted (3 years 4 months 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 7912 times:
Quoting Leezyjet (Reply 6): That isn't technically an airbridge. The term airbridge normally referrs to the actual moving bit that drives onto the a/c. That part is simply a fixed walkway down to the actual airbridge which will be located between the grey part of the building just visible above the a/c, and the a/c itself.
I think you're the only one who's got the point....this is not really an airbridge at all.....just an extended, fixed section of the terminal.....
Still, fact remains that once you enter this section and start walking down it, you get that feeling of being on the final stretch before entering the aircraft....
26 Vasu: There's a pretty long one planned at SVO terminal 3! (Bottom left)
28 USAFHummer: Don't have access to Google Earth at the moment but maybe those who do could use the Path tool to measure the distances involved in the candidates and
29 Ti717: Only in the US. UA Airport have to follow NFPA 415 which says "there shall be no windows other than those for located in ramp access service door and
30 Ti717: DFW terminal D has some long ones. http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...&lvl=1&scene=4133759&rtp=null~null
31 Lincoln: I should have known that NFPA would have something to do with the near complete lack of windows in US boarding bridges. Though I might feel a little
32 AsstChiefMark: I swear that I used a really long one in DEN in 2000. I was getting on a UA 777 and entered through the 4L door. My seat was 49A. Mark
33 DIA: Seat was in row 49, eh? That may be why you thought it was such a long one! Seriously, your signature made me laugh out loud...a rare occasion for me
34 AsstChiefMark: I remember it because I'd never entered an aircraft from the back before. And it was for a short trip to SEA. I was expecting a 727. I was dumbfounde
36 Crownvic: AAMaddog...I remember that one at PHL. When it use to belong to TWA, I thnk it actually had a 'Y' shape that broke into two air bridges, but I am not
37 NoelG: I've flown out of that gate too, HKG-LHR in January. It doesn't seem that long when you're boarding, I guess because you don't really notice it when
38 Airlinebrat: I flew out of Gate 3 on my way to TPE and noticed how long Gate 4 extended to the plane. I was heading to Taipei out of Gate 3 and the 4:30pm (?) flig
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