Deboarding times

[James]

I'd like to propose an idea for a future update. This may well have already been brought to the agenda but I failed to find it in the forum search
tool.
What I'd like to see in a future update is PAX deboarding times being reduced when 1 or more doors are open as well as the normal front left
door. IMO when there is a case of having 2 doors instead of one open, this should reduce the time it takes to deboard but for me and I'm sure everyone else it takes the same amount of time.
So when we fly to airports that will give you a parking stand instead of a gate and the only way for PAX's to be deboarded is by stairs and you open the 2 doors on the left side of the plane or in some case 3 doors, could FsP detect this and reduce deboarding times? What do yeah lads think?



Post Edited ( 08-30-05 00:40 )

[JaWood]

In most cases, only the main front door is ever opened to unload passengers, because there is only one gate. Even if there is no gate, usually only
one door is given stairs for unloading.

Besides, it's not like we have to wait for pax to unload to end the flight. Once the parking brake is set and the door is open, you can end the
flight. Think of it as the pilot getting off before the passengers

[FSfreak]

I was just on a flight from Edmonton Intl (CYEG) - Seattle Tacoma intl (KSEA) and they unloaded from the main cabin door and a door at
the back, we were parked at a regular parking stand (no Jetway attached to the plane)

[Needle]

I would like to hear deboarding sounds, like the ones you hear when boarding.

[SWAFO]

We never really open the aft entrance door. The front entrance door is the only one the PAX will usually deboard out of.

[James]

SWAFO wrote:
We never really open the aft entrance door. The front entrance door is the only one the PAX will usually deboard out of.

Well I've seen loads of airlines do this when at a parking stand. Just a few weeks ago when I flew into Bilbao with Aer Lingus on an A320, they were
parked at a stand with a jetway and both doors opened and used for deboarding. Upon arriving back in Dublin we parked at Pier A and we they deboarded
us using both doors so it is normal operations on a lot of airlines. So is there any chance of my idea being implemented into any future updates?

[SWAFO]

I was speaking of air operations here in the US. We normally have a gate and terminal to use. I'm aware of other country's operations,
and apologize for not including them.

[PG]

James wrote:


Well I've seen loads of airlines do this when at a parking stand.

It's rare, but does happen, that an airplane will use both when at a gate. At the WestJet terminal in Calgary (CYYC), they have one gate with a
dual-bridge. They save that for aircraft that are delayed coming in; it lets them deboard faster, lets connecting passengers get to their connections
sooner, and helps them maintain a good on-time rate. That is the only airport that I know of (at least, that I have seen in Canada, don't think
Pearson or Vancouver have a double-bridge) that has this feature.

Best,

[pagir]

Welcome here, PG!!!

Your experience is most welcome here!

Pagir
Québec

[olseric]

Mmm, just as a side note, KLM has done that for a long time with heavies in Schiphol. They actually have "double gates" manufactured
so that they can load from the front and the middle for the big aircraft.

Northwest copied them now and has the same setup in Detroit on the heavy gates. I know in Minneapolis, they used to, not sure if they
still do, use TWO gates for the heavies to speed loading/unloading.

I've never seen it used on anything with less than two aisles though.

[lightrail]

SWAFO wrote:
We never really open the aft entrance door. The front entrance door is the only one the PAX will usually deboard out of.

At Vancouver the gates have airbridges (jetways) that serve the front door and cantilever over the wing to the back door. These are on Concourse A and
are used by Westjet - so they do load and unload by both doors at Vancouver.

At Victoria, they place airstairs at the rear and front doors and load and unload by both doors too.

[jope-dope]

on a flight from melbourne to sydney with virgin blue both doors where used as well. the front door was connected to the jetway and the aftdoor
passengers had to go through a door where they met the frontdoorpassengers again

hope u understand it