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A Squared
Well, if Sky West at Chattanooga normally boards it's flights via a jetway, then it's very likely that they don't have equipment, procedures and staff in place to disembark passengers across the ramp. That's not the sort of thing that it's wise to improvise at the last minute.
Wouldn't there need to be procedures to disembark passengers in the event of, say, a mechanical failure away from the gate?