Turnaround times

"Clark W. Griswold, Jr." 73115 dot 1041 at compuserve dot com wrote in
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mrtravelkay wrote:

Do they use 2 doors in Dallas and Houston? Where I fly them (SJC, SNA)
they only seem to use 1.

SWA was running trials a few years back at Dallas and Austin with jetways
that
split over the wing and covered two doors. Haven't been either place in a
while,
so I don't know if those gates are still configured that way.

They have dual bridges on both WN gates at AL and have for over a year.

FWIW, US Shuttle will using front and back duing "rush hour." at LGA. Going
out the back is down an airstair.

J

Delta Shuttle 737's use both doors everyday at DCA and LGA.


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , mrtravelkay
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Do they use 2 doors in Dallas and Houston? Where I fly them (SJC, SNA)
they only seem to use 1.

I don't recall anyone using more than one door, for any size plane, in
the US. Unless they are using steps to the runway, in which case I've
still never experienced two sets.
--
Roland Perry

In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:

In message , mrtravelkay
writes
Do they use 2 doors in Dallas and Houston? Where I fly them (SJC, SNA)
they only seem to use 1.

I don't recall anyone using more than one door, for any size plane, in
the US. Unless they are using steps to the runway, in which case I've
still never experienced two sets.

Wn uses 2 doors at least at BUR. Rare otherwise.

There are a couple of items to consider.

An aircraft can do a number of very short turn arounds in a day, but will need
at least one longer one for daily maintenance/checks.

Also, when an aircraft goes from a base/hub to a satellite town and back,
chances are that any maintenance and catering will be handled only from base
so this allows shorter turn around at the satellite city.

A flight can make a certain number of hops before needing routine maintenance
(toilets etc).

For long haul flights, turnaround is generally shorter on the "foreign" city
than in the airline's home country where it has the facilities/staff to do
maintenance. However, there are many exceptions to this.

One example was KLM last year between AMS and YUL. They used YUL as a parking
lot to park one of their 747s for 6-7 hours, probably because it was cheaper
to park it here than at AMS. During recession, when air airline has a surplus
of siarcrtaft due to reduced frequencies, they have to find places to park
those planes during idle hours.

Low cost carriers tend to have very few spare aircraft and run a tight
schedule. This means that when something goes wrong, all hell breaks loose.
The legacy airlines tended to have more "spare" planes which allowed them
greater flexibility to handle a late flight or a plane that is out of order.

Roland Perry wrote:
I don't recall anyone using more than one door, for any size plane, in
the US. Unless they are using steps to the runway, in which case I've
still never experienced two sets.

Jetblue will sometimes use the jetway and the back steps - people sitting
near the front (or who just don't want to go down and back up steps) take
the jetway, and those sitting in the back can avoid standing around in the
aisle by using the back steps.

miguel
--
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Thankx to all for the information,
I am asking that because some time ago i read an article( about
Southwest i think) where it was explained the saving of a low cost for
each operation of the turnaround (ex cleaning low cost 5 minutes full
service 7 minutes, refueling lcc 3 min, fsc 4 minutes and so
on...).Does anyone read the same article/book?
I need this for my tesi (I am a student of engineering in Milan) about
low cost company and i haven't found anything in the web....
Grazie/Thanks Marco

(brens) wrote:

Thankx to all for the information,
I am asking that because some time ago i read an article( about
Southwest i think) where it was explained the saving of a low cost for
each operation of the turnaround (ex cleaning low cost 5 minutes full
service 7 minutes, refueling lcc 3 min, fsc 4 minutes and so
on...).Does anyone read the same article/book?
I need this for my tesi (I am a student of engineering in Milan) about
low cost company and i haven't found anything in the web....
Grazie/Thanks Marco


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