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Jetway Update

Posted By: Whale Tail

Jetway Update - 04/19/2023 11:56 AM

Looks like all 4 jetways have been extended.

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Posted By: Carol_Hill

Re: Jetway Update - 04/19/2023 01:15 PM

Thanks for the updates. Will be so exciting when they are in use.
Posted By: timnboston

Re: Jetway Update - 04/19/2023 07:38 PM

Thanks for the updates. But if all the airlines schedule their flights to arrive and leave in a two or three hour window, won't the majority of passengers still end up being schlepped out to their flights on busses? Even before the hurricane, that seemed to happen to me regularly
Posted By: Carol_Hill

Re: Jetway Update - 04/19/2023 07:54 PM

tim--that happens on the weekend, yes. Then the availability of jetways depends on which airline you fly. AA and Air France almost always get jetways.
Posted By: SXMScubaman

Re: Jetway Update - 04/19/2023 08:07 PM

It was a long time way before Irma that our flights didn't have a Jetway with AA.
Posted By: Carol_Hill

Re: Jetway Update - 04/19/2023 09:29 PM

Say what? AA from Miami ALWAYS had a jetway, pre Irma.
Posted By: SXMScubaman

Re: Jetway Update - 04/19/2023 10:32 PM

As I said it was a long time before Irma we DIDN'T always have them. As long as I can remember we always did pre Irma.
Posted By: Carol_Hill

Re: Jetway Update - 04/19/2023 11:28 PM

Nah, Scuba, that's not what you said to begin with. But OK
Posted By: SXMScubaman

Re: Jetway Update - 04/20/2023 12:22 AM

Originally Posted by Carol_Hill
Nah, Scuba, that's not what you said to begin with. But OK

Just have to reread it. It's what I said.
Posted By: Carol_Hill

Re: Jetway Update - 04/20/2023 12:38 AM

OK, don't think so, but ok.
Posted By: kim

Re: Jetway Update - 04/20/2023 01:53 AM

1983 - no jetways, long line in open air under outer belly of airport. I passed out or close to it from the heat a few times!
Posted By: SXMScubaman

Re: Jetway Update - 04/20/2023 02:08 AM

What ever.
Posted By: Colour1

Re: Jetway Update - 04/20/2023 11:13 AM

The old airport, we walked it in!! Use to be able to buy a cold beer and have a cigarette waiting for the luggage!! OHHHYEAH it was hot, but I didn't care, we were in ST.MARTIN!!

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Posted By: pat

Re: Jetway Update - 04/20/2023 02:38 PM

The newer of the ‘old airports’ was crazy. I had a child that came very close to passing out in the cramped and hot environs with each arrival. It became such a regular thing we started packing damp facecloths packed with ice cubes to put on her neck and forehead before she went down. The airco was nonexistent and the ceiling fans were totally ineffective. Oh, the price we paid for time in Paradise.
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