At risk of continued thread drift I've boarded and disembarked a number of Ryanair flights at Tenerife using airbridges

I flew back from Frankfurt T2 to STN with RYR in July and all boarding was via an airbridge!.......A pretty civilized experience compared to the normal scrum!

No longer true at Malaga.

They have built extensions recently to gates on Pier B and C directly prior to the airbridge which are steps/lifts down to the ground so they can board via the forward and rear steps. Pier D (Schengen only) also has the option built in as standard.

I can only presume it's because of RYR is the largest carrier at AGP.

I haven't seen any other carrier besides RYR use this however; EZY, LS, etc, still use the airbridge on the same gates.

Can confirm this at certain gates yes, though from what I've seen it's only Ryanair who use them along with Air Nostrum for obvious reasons. EasyJet and the rest seem to continue to use the airbridges.

Another Boeing 737-800 joining the fleet shortly... G-DRTR with mode S code 4078AE - not registered yet on G-INFO so cannot see previous owner, anyone know more?

Are there any plans to add an extra aircraft or two to the GLA base following the collapse of Thomas Cook?

Jethros also showing a second 738, reg'd G-DRTM due as well.

Reportedly due at MAN from Kazakhstan on Nov 5th - no idea whether it’s originating there, or that’s just a transit stop en route from somewhere further east.

GLA is due to get 1 additional aircraft next year anyway and there is a possibility of an additional one taking GLA up to 9.

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or maybe +1 at NCL :}

G-DRTM is ex Air Europa aircraft EC-KCG built in 2007 currently stored in Woensdrecht. (Winglets)
G-DRTR is ex Air China aircraft B-5175 built in 2006 currently stored in Chengdu. (No Winglets)

Not sure what this has to do with Jet2 the airline?

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From your quote it seems they were on a "Jet2 the airline " flight; perhaps that?

I think its a bit harsh.............but assume Jet 2 counter claimed v the airport authorities?

Whilst they are on a jet 2 holiday ,we must pay for ground handling at these places. The failure to protect our passengers looks bad on JET2 But the issue was clearly the airports.

Is that anyone's view?

It's clearly an airport issue - it's irrelevant which a/c the pax got off (which was how I read ATNotts original point).