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United Airlines planes lined up at their jet bridges at Denver International Airport in March 2014. A jet bridge (also termed jetway, [1] jetwalk, airgate, jetty, gangway, planeplank, aerobridge/airbridge, finger, skybridge, airtube, expedited suspended passenger entry system (E-SPES), or its official industry name passenger boarding bridge (PBB)) is an enclosed connector which most commonly ...
Aircraft bridges must be designed to support the heaviest aircraft that may cross them, or that will cross them in the future. In 1963, a taxiway bridge at O'Hare International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world, was planned to handle future aircraft weighing 365,000 pounds (166,000 kg), but aircraft weights doubled within two years of its construction. [1]
Boarding stairs with canopy. Boarding stairs must be robust and stable, capable of withstanding adverse weather conditions. They are designed to adapt to the curved shape of the aircraft fuselage to which they must be attached, and to be able to raise and lower them to adjust the upper platform to the height of the aircraft, allowing passengers get on and off from the ground to the aircraft ...
Attentive passengers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for most of this year could spot an unusual sight along the west side of Terminal 1. Two jet-bridges — stretched to nearly full ...
The new jet bridge will connect the planes directly to the terminal, meaning that passengers won't have to go outside anymore to board. To ... New $2 million boarding bridge installed at Cheyenne ...
Interim Airport Director Deontae Watson said that The Fayetteville Regional Airport is upgrading its roof, replacing a 1980s passenger boarding bridge with a new $1.5 million jet bridge and ...
A particularly unusual design was employed at Berlin Tegel Airport's Terminal A. Consisting of an hexagonal-shaped ring around a courtyard, five of the outer walls were airside and fitted with jet bridges, while the sixth (forming the entrance), along with the inner courtyard, was landside. Although superficially resembling a satellite design ...
A jet bridge at San Francisco International Airport is under investigation after suddenly collapsing on a Hawaiian Airlines aircraft during deplaning.