Originally Posted by
Fly3
This is standard practice in places like LAX where the design of the cul-de-sac's is so narrow that, as stated above, being towed onto the stand prevents any possibility of causing damage with your jet blast as you turn into your gate. It's a pain because as soon as the engines shutdown all the passengers unstrap unless you have warned them in advance of the procedure.
Many thanks for explaining it thus. I have been SLF into LAX many times on QF and this has happened a lot. Crew have often pre-warned us, but have never explained the "Why". Maybe even they did not know ;-)
FN