davidjohnson6...
Why the professionals did not enact your reasoned plan once evacuated airside is not for me to answer...."but circumstances...dear boy circumstances" would be the overall factor certainly...
Have you any idea of the numbers involved?...Just safety FIRST I would hope would be the priority.
From airside the next way forward is out onto the tarmac..we were passed up to open those ground level doors & marshall airside in an evacuation from there too.
Not suggesting that was the thinking perhaps but at one stage all threat scenarios would have been contemplated by those units whose job it is.
The authorities were very anxious to determine the cause of the fire...Enough said.
Still stand by my remarks earlier.
I retain a doubt why you could not or did not post your at least reasoned response earlier in the day as opposed to what you stated originally.