Airliners on the tarmac with no air bridge

[Getragdogleg]

vtgts300kw said:

Koh Samui. Take you to the plane in little buggy trains.

Whan I was out there quite a number of years ago we flew out of a rough grass strip in a semi cargo semi passenger plane that was like something out of Indiana Jones, we had chickens in crates stacked up behind a curtain in the back of the cabin and the old woman sat on the canvas seat next to me had a small monkey on a chain that kept staring at me for the whole flight.
There was no proper airport back then let alone a skybridge, It has obviously changed a lot.

[HoHoHo]

A jetty anybody.......


Maldives by Martin_Bennett, on Flickr

[v15ben]

The buggies at Koh Samui are pretty cool, I remember those

I once flew into Mwanza, Tanzania. Not only did you have to walk across the tarmac, you also had to wait next to the plane for the guy to find your suitcase and pass it to you straight from the cargo area

[16v_paddy]

vtgts300kw said:

Koh Samui. Take you to the plane in little buggy trains.

I love that place & really need to go back Why oh why did I say yes to building a silly powerful engine for my track car instead of a holiday

[XJSJohn]

IanUAE said:

Jaipur and Ranchi airports in India are 2 where you walk to / from the terminal.

i find it is usually dragged, kicking and screaming from the airplane .....

Moresby and some of the internal flights in PNG come to mind, sometimes you even have to get out and push the plane to a harder bit of mud before the pilot can take off!!

Edited by XJSJohn on Thursday 15th March 06:27

[UnderTheRadar]

16v_paddy said:

vtgts300kw said:

Koh Samui. Take you to the plane in little buggy trains.

I love that place & really need to go back Why oh why did I say yes to building a silly powerful engine for my track car instead of a holiday

Mmm. I remember it well. A magical place; I was there 12 years ago on my honeymoon. My brother and his wife were there about 25 years ago and camped because there were virtually no buildings apart from fisherman's huts.

[Manicminer]

HoHoHo said:

A jetty anybody.......


Maldives by Martin_Bennett, on Flickr

That looks superb!

[HoHoHo]

Manicminer said:

HoHoHo said:

A jetty anybody.......


Maldives by Martin_Bennett, on Flickr

That looks superb!

Thw two pilots casuallly strolled up to the plane with their shorts and flip flops on, had a bang and a thump around the airframe to check all was OK, helped load the passengers and buggered off back to Male, presumably followed by various flights throughout the day.

It's a great way top transfer between the capital and small islands

[jaybirduk]

A true PH'er would never use an airbridge, you simply drive up to the aircraft

[Cyder]

Be tricky to drive to it there though wouldn't it?

[bennyboydurham]

Air Asia in Malaysia, lots of walking!

[CelicaGT]

Stairs on a Delta 757 in Kona, Hawaii:



Pretty cool to climb the stairs next to one of those massive engines. I also could have literally stepped over a knee high wall right out onto the ramp and walked up to the airplane if I'd wanted to...and the terminal had no roof either!

[brenflys777]

Antigua with the light twin.

[Hackney]

Spitbarnatt said:

Kiruna, Sweden.

I have similar shot at dusk - about 3pm
Really does make you laugh when they close heathrow for a few flakes when you've landed at Kiruna

[Streetrod]

Manicminer said:

HoHoHo said:

A jetty anybody.......


Maldives by Martin_Bennett, on Flickr

That looks superb!

I'v been on that, its a great way to start a holiday. Also I love the way they fly really low most of the way to the island

[Slinky1989]

Walked to and from the 747 we flew on to st lucia last year across the apron and then up steps. Was a lot of steps mind!

[bigfatnick]

I've had loads recently
Ryanair in Marrakech
Leeds Bradford from dublin, Ryainair, stairs but had to wait for a bus, because the 40metre walk was presumably just too much.
Christchurch in New zealand
Queenstown in New zealand
Landing in Cairns in australia (done it a few times, as far as i know all the jets use walkways, but we were in a cessna grand caravan mail plane, which i boarded in the middle of bumfk,) didn't use the terminal.
Auckland to Brunei, dismounted a 777 via stairs, had to walk to the terminal (quite some distance) before boarding our next 777 to dubai/lhr via an air bridge. (interestingly a Monarch 757 was just taking off as i was trudging along the apron, i've never found out what it was doing there, and would love to find out. All i can think is that maybe it had been chartered by the army, but brunei is still an odd place for it.

[pidsy]

Just to add Marsa Alam (southern Egypt) to the list.

Think ive got some pics somewhere...

[0000]

I always seem to walk across the tarmac more often than I don't, UK and abroad.

[CDP]

jaybirduk said:

Bluequay said:

Nickyboy said:

Steps? Last time i flew Ryanair they just dropped a rope out the door.

A rope, you were lucky!!! I was just kicked out of the open door into the abyss!!

Kicked out the door? You were lucky!!! We had an outside seat on the wing

Outside seat on the wing?

Luxury

When we flew wt them we had to carry the plane up runway as fast as we could to save tyres then wore our feet down t knees when it landed.