Originally Posted by
pax britanica
Back in its BA days early arrivals in T4 were towed into gates at the back of the terminal for noise abatement reasons and I have also been towed into/out of some tight gates at JFK.
At SFO too, as we saw from the recent Aer Lingus wingtip scrape while being towed onto stand there:
PPRuNe: Anyone got some T-cut?
Though we're drifting off the original topic, which was aircraft coasting onto the gate purely using momentum, rather than motive power provided by a tug or one running engine.