Proposal for 14 new ground gates in DEN
 

So… are these gates in addition to our existing gates or a larger replacement? I love ground gates in the winter time, the cold wind doesn’t bother me and it never snows in Colorado.

https://news.flyfrontier.com/frontie...ional-airport/

Got a chuckle out of “ground gates” Are there also “air gates”?

First we build a ramp to take them up to terminal departure level. Then we build escalators to take them down the train. Then we give them escalators up to concourse departure level. With this approval we will elevator them down the ground level and give them steps up to the airplane.

Get a taste of the old western frontier as you fly Frontier. Seems catchy to me.

I’ll take that over a shrinking base anyday.

Dollars to donuts says we give up all the jet bridge gated except for international arrivals…….. then Mx will repo those to ground gates

Then it will be a cluster and we will have given up the gates and can't get them back

Definitely. We have to be giving up all of our real gates. It'll be just like Great Lakes on the east end of A again!

GLA finally got jets.

Ha! Yes. Love it.

By the way, in that article Biffle says that with the new ground gates we can turn in airplanes in half the time. I can't wait to see our 20 minute turns in DEN!


Barry Biffle, president and CEO, Frontier Airlines. “A dedicated ground boarding facility will benefit customers by cutting in half the time for boarding and deplaning through the use of both the front and rear aircraft doors. That, in turn, will reduce our time on the ground between flights by nearly half and nearly double our number of aircraft operations per gate."

That should go smoothly

Where has that actually worked? We've done lots of two door operations, never really saved much time, besides how is the one ramper supposed to manage it all?