Yesterday i had arrived at Gatwick on the afternoon easyJet from Glasgow. We were met by two buses to ferry us to the terminal. i was standing in the middle of the bus, surrounded by pax, watching with interest as a member of the flight deck did a walkround the A319. We had been waiting about 4 minutes when the bus started to move off, away from the a/c. I was quite glad to be on the move as the bus was very hot. Suddenly there was a commotion from the front, with people banging on the windows and shouting. I looked to see what was the reason for the furore and discovered the bus was missing a vital component.....the driver!!
I then saw what appeared to be the driver legging it back to the moving vehicle. He managed to catch up, jumped in the cab, and continued on to the terminal! Had he not been so lucky I am not sure how we would have stopped the vehicle as perspex separated pax from cab. And then if we had tangled with a taxying 757....but thats ifs & buts. It really is SO much safer flying than driving!!