I am afraid Tom the T my sentiments are with you!
I am now sitting in my friends flat in london, afraid to open my bag to see how much my clothes got soaked this evening as I sat in the "cafe cuisine" looking at at it lashing rain and my bag sitting in an uncovered baggage trolley left abandoned in the middle of the concourse.
Not to mention of course of course the soaking I got when walking down to the FR parked down by the TNT cargo plane!!
I do agree that the air bridges are essential. Not everyone will want to use, but in the future who knows what might happen?
We could have trans altantic etc with airlines business pax which would require airbridges.
There is air bridges at STN where Ryanair park, they just dont use them, but for BAA going forward in the future, if LHR gets too congested and they get spill over, they will have the air bridges to be able to provide the service if needed.
I am sure for ORK that it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to install the bridges now, rather than in 10 years time decide that they are required where the cost to install them would be 3 times the cost not to mention the disruption to PAX etc.......