Double air bridges

[jabird]

http://www1.cksairport.gov.tw/english/media/picture_view.aspx?id=11

Just noticed this picture of air bridges at Taipei (CKS) Airport.

How many others have "double" air bridges like this? Are they designed for different a/c sizes, or to be used simultaneously for larger a/c?

Are any double deck versions planned anywhere for the A380?

[kooyheier]

EHAM has got double airbridges as well on some of the piers.

[jabird]

You mean AMS?

Is it just me who prefers three letter codes to the four letter ones, or am I exposing my passenger, rather than pilot's view point?

I'll get my coat.

[kooyheier]

Here's a pic of Amsterdam Airports double airbridges




http://www.airliners.net/open.file/670022/M/

And here\'s an even better one;)

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/661601/L/

cheerio:cool:

[agent x]

There are double airbridges at MAN, nothing new, they've had them for years!

Agent x :ok:

[pamann]

FAO has them too.

And yes please eveyone stop using four letter codes not all of us know what they are, we have to look them up and surely it's easier to type three letters than four!:D

[StephenM_SMC]

If your looking at a ND or a FMC you will be used of the ICAO codes.

You can quickly see who does what by whether they use the IATA's or the ICAO's. Personally (Aviation Enthusiast) I prefer the ICAO's.

[chiglet]

Working in ATC, I use ICAO codes all the time, ergo . four letters If I have the time [or the IATA code to hand], I will use that :ok:
watp,iktch

[jabird]

Wasn't suggesting they were new, just hadn't noticed them before.

Those devices at AMS look extremely complicated - any ideas of the damage for each one?

Presumably not something on the shopping list of any Ryanairport manager.

[Jordan D]

Doesn't CDG have them, or is that just my imagination?

Jordan

[The SSK]

Years ago I got on the wrong aircraft in Budapest because I went down the wrong arm of the airbridge (I was rather late boarding and they had roped off the 'right' one.

It struck me as funny that after all the heavy-handed security and surveillance you had to go through (this was just before the end of the Communist era) the system could 'lose' you so easily.

[Jordan D]

It happens here as well - I got sent down the wrong one at Stansted a few years back going to Barcelona ... was very odd to get on an empty plane, with no heat, no light, no cabin crew!

Jordan

[canuck slf]

Double airbridges are also in use at YVR (Vancouver) and YYC (Calgary).
They are used on WestJet 737s to speed turnaround.

Regards