Can anyone tell me why at some airports with Jetbridges designed for RJ's we are still using the extensions that leave our passengers open to the wind and rain.
Example. This past week coming out of I think rockford (I can't remember)this thunderstorm was coming through while we were loading. The plane had been there overnight and I'm not sure when it had been opened and set up to the jet bridge with the little extension. The jet bridge was an RJ one with the extending section and the little yellow gates which I've seen used at other stations without the rolling extension which was used this morning. There was a gap between the overhead cover and the top of the plane which was allowing rain to fall into the jetbridge, into the plane, and then also collecting rain on the extension and funneling it into the plane. It was soaked in the plane. And then when the passengers were loading they had to walk through this curtain of rain to get into the wet plane. The whole thing was really just crappy for the pax. Why do we put them through that?

http://www.sovereign-publications.com/jetway.htm

Why aren't they being used like designed?