No push back. Pax waiting on a bus at the hard stand for aircraft, rather than vice versa, for starters.
---------------------------------------- *From: *Karl L. Swartz via Mifnet <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> *To: *Mifnet <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> *CC: *Karl L. Swartz <k...@kls2.com> *Date: *2025-09-08T19:15:59Z *Subject: *[Mifnet 🛰 74025] Re: Frontier move > How is that contraption any more efficient for fast turns than a jet bridge? > > -- Karl > >> On Sep 8, 2025, at 11:03 AM, Doug Church via Mifnet >> <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> wrote: >> >> My wife and I had the ... ahem ... pleasure of flying with Frontier last >> February (BWI-DEN-PHX) and were thrilled (not) to be able to board the >> aircraft outside and breathe in the cool Rocky Mountain air, with a touch of >> Jet A, in sub-zero wind chills during a snowstorm. Attached is what the >> stairs looked like. I didn't do my homework before the flight and was in for >> quite the surprise when there was no jet bridge at Denver. >> >> -Doug Church >> >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM Jack Keady via Mifnet >> <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> wrote: >>> keady - do all their aircraft have integral stairs? >>> >>> >>> *Frontier Airlines tells passengers: Forget jet bridges - board outside in >>> the snow* >>> >>> >>> Frontier Airlines raised eyebrows three years ago when they said they >>> didn’t want to use jet bridges anymore at their home base in Denver. Now >>> they say they want to move “as close to 100% ground loading as possible” >>> across all of their airports over the next few years, calling jet bridges >>> “the kiss of death” for fast turns. Denver opened a new A-East facility >>> with 14 aircraft positions purpose-built with Frontier that fully opened a >>> year ago. They were already operating out of Austin’s South Terminal, which >>> doesn’t have jetbridges. _*Gary Leff/View From the >>> Wing[https://ytezitcab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hfEW2iK9mGZn9c6OM459DGlC7rc7ITgbYyr3EXKu-iH7HDStoak_WVHeR-qYgQKhxO0-zkKT_noQR28ndnO16PBhnKwe-73oNVp0h_KWYgf6KHLtdsCDI_yxcFbeGRuzerf23v8_tQ6d7iCYfE-zrx9srosZkUuJUjBYvuZWupN_p_beGAZjahSoASqUuQum-24b3dmxRKYZTPJGW3TeOCx4Z0MHZSNf6egtkbv4hRuf8WR1e9KyzNVq3YuIEQhVT3VbFQZka_Y=&c=G6AYv4yA7c6wGwq2Tv45PFTTZOUDSRe64VACguY5Fp_TDwVynf_wKw==&ch=rVAD4oe658UigSwkjZG_nVW14nwzmjRsAnOibGPRWvSxFgsVjrP4ZQ==]*_ >>> >
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