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No, the flight you're thinking of was 5 years later and had the new blue fuselage.
On an unrelated note, I've always been curious why BUR never installed jetways. There are airports a thousand times smaller that offer them. I understand it's an aging terminal, but jetways aren't exactly a new technology. What's the deal?
No, the flight you're thinking of was 5 years later and had the new blue fuselage.
On an unrelated note, I've always been curious why BUR never installed jetways. There are airports a thousand times smaller that offer them. I understand it's an aging terminal, but jetways aren't exactly a new technology. What's the deal?
Most likely the cost to upgrade the aging terminal. You would have to install stairs/ramps either prior to the jetway, or in them. Plus, there is really no room on the ramp for them. The airplanes are shoehorned in as it is, and you would most likely lose a gate or two to have jetway's. And the planes can not sit further back from the terminal as you would be encroaching on the taxiway.
And it's southern California... the weather is usually mild... the airport authorities may feel it's not necessary,
given the expense (and the factors mentioned by Wileykid). LGB doesn't have jetways either.
Even up in Oregon, where the weather isn't so mild, some flights at PDX are served by stairs rather than jetways.
And it's southern California... the weather is usually mild... the airport authorities may feel it's not necessary,
given the expense (and the factors mentioned by Wileykid). LGB doesn't have jetways either.
Even up in Oregon, where the weather isn't so mild, some flights at PDX are served by stairs rather than jetways.
Even Quebec City (YOB) has passengers walk out onto the tarmac for some regional aircraft flights - in -21 C winter weather.
That was 1984 according to the report. I saw gas today, 34 years later, for under $2/gallon. It wasn't Chevron, but at the Chevron station I use it's now $2.30 ... likely actually cheaper than in 1984 with 34 years of inflation.
And it's southern California... the weather is usually mild... the airport authorities may feel it's not necessary,
given the expense (and the factors mentioned by Wileykid). LGB doesn't have jetways either.
Even up in Oregon, where the weather isn't so mild, some flights at PDX are served by stairs rather than jetways.
I was in San Jose in the '90s, a pretty major airport even then, and I don't think they had jetways at the time. I know my flights had to walk out across the tarmacs and I'm pretty sure all the others did too.
I was in San Jose in the '90s, a pretty major airport even then, and I don't think they had jetways at the time. I know my flights had to walk out across the tarmacs and I'm pretty sure all the others did too.
Early 90s? I flew LAX-SJC-LAX in September 1997 (on Reno Air) and they had jetways then.
Early 90s? I flew LAX-SJC-LAX in September 1997 (on Reno Air) and they had jetways then.
Both answers are technically correct. At the time of Reno Air (great little airline), SJC had two terminals: one that served American, Reno Air, and Southwest. That terminal had jetways.
The second, older one to the south, which served everyone else...did not.
That was 1984 according to the report. I saw gas today, 34 years later, for under $2/gallon. It wasn't Chevron, but at the Chevron station I use it's now $2.30 ... likely actually cheaper than in 1984 with 34 years of inflation.
Heck, Charlotte still makes you walk to the plane for the E Concourse American Eagle flights, and that's a major hub airport. And the 35X bus gates at Washington National and more of them in rain-prone Miami.
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