FR strange sighting ...

[cathay belgium]

Hi,

I boarded my LH flight in BIO this morning and while waiting on the gate I had a moment of this :

I saw a FR plane docked at the airbridge ! ( gate 1)
Never saw this before !
Tought FR isn't into these because of the cost and the small turnaround times ?

Any light on this,..

A vueling a320 and a AF EMB145 weren't at a gate and were bussed,..
Why not FR ?

CX-B

[RoMax]

I believe I also saw it at MAD, not sure tough.

[andorra-airport]

I believe I also saw it at MAD, not sure tough.

They use the airbridge in MAD, because the remote stand (bus) is far away, it would not give them the quick turn-around.

It's expensive. More then 100 euro, what I remember.

[Mirror]

Ryanair uses at different airport gates (Palma, Bilbao, Madrid, Barcelona sometimes,...).
For BIO turn arounds are slightly longer to allow for slow boarding.

[sdbelgium]

For the majority of flights in Spain, FR uses airbridges. BIO is not an exception. In BCN, Ryanair uses airbridges for all the operations in T2 and only very seldom do they park on a remote stand! Contrary to what you may think, they actually don't like this because it is more expensive than remote stands. And about the turnarounds: almost all domestic flights in Spain have 35 minute turnaround instead of the 'normal' 25.

[airtrainer]

Not an unusual sight indeed, I've used jetbridges at BCN, MAD and ACE

[cnc]

For the majority of flights in Spain, FR uses airbridges. BIO is not an exception. In BCN, Ryanair uses airbridges for all the operations in T2 and only very seldom do they park on a remote stand! Contrary to what you may think, they actually don't like this because it is more expensive than remote stands. And about the turnarounds: almost all domestic flights in Spain have 35 minute turnaround instead of the 'normal' 25.

they also need a pushback in such cases and they prefere the cheap power-in/out stands.
pushbacks cost a lot of money btw