Jet-bridging or Jet bridging, is the action of boarding a Long Haul Aircraft and keeping the passengers at the Jet bridge for a while until the Purser and
Captain are ready for " real boarding".
This a rather inventive act, created by some Airline Supervisors in Dusseldorf international airport and it consists on starting the boarding process before the crew has given the “ok” for boarding.
The jet bridge is therefore used as a holding point to hold all Passengers and start the
long boarding of
300 Passengers in the system.
With this method, the flights can be closed on
time and station performance and on
time performance increases exponentially.
Some interesting data:
B767 -209 Passengers
Record
Time between commencing of the boarding process and flight closed / off blocks - 15min.
Captain: I guess we are running late today. What can be done to expedite the boarding process.
AA Supervisor: Let’s do some Jetbridging / Jet bridging
____
Station ISC: one more
day on
time and we have the best on
time performance in Europe.
Supervisor: Lets Jet bridge it!
