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Old 6th Jun 2004, 09:06
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Teddy Robinson
 
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Danger

Perhaps the following deserves a thread of it's own.

The A330 incident caused delays and cancellations, but there was what I consider a far more dangerous situation being created at departure gates A18 & A19 where two (Ryanair) flights were rescheduled for the same departure time.

The terminal at that point is a dead end, about 50 feet wide with rows of seats running across it, leaving two "aisles" of about 10 feet each .... down which the would be pax for two 800 series 737's with no allocated seats were 'mingling' with the deboarding pax from these two aircraft... as a ball park there would have been 600 people all in a hurry to swap ends of the airport.

THAT was frightening.
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