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Each gate typically corresponds to one parking stand on the airport's apron. A gate that provides access to multiple stands/jet bridges may have separate, designated doorways – sometimes termed sub-gates – for each stand. Commercial airport stands have airside components to facilitate passenger boarding and aircraft ground handling. [1]: 6-2
A satellite terminal is a round- or star-shaped building detached from other airport buildings, so that aircraft can park around its entire circumference. The first airport to use a satellite terminal was London Gatwick Airport. [citation needed] It used an underground pedestrian tunnel to connect the satellite to the main terminal.
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United Airlines planes lined up at their jet bridges at Denver International Airport in March 2014. A jet bridge (also termed jetway, [1] jetwalk, airgate, jetty, gangway, planeplank, aerobridge/airbridge, finger, skybridge, airtube, expedited suspended passenger entry system (E-SPES), or its official industry name passenger boarding bridge (PBB)) is an enclosed connector which most commonly ...
Scheduled services from the Chilean mainland started in 1967 with a monthly Douglas DC-6B propliner flight operated by LAN-Chile that took nine hours, [6] using a runway extended and paved for the use as a U.S. base. [7] In 1970, services were upgraded with weekly Boeing 707-320 nonstop jet service to Santiago, Chile and Faa'a International Airport (PPT) in Papeete, Tahiti.
As airport infrastructure has developed, the need for airstairs has decreased, as jetways or mobile stairways are often available. Wide-body aircraft rarely employ airstairs, as the doors are significantly higher above the ground than narrow-body aircraft .
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In aviation, a terminal control area (TMA, or TCA in the U.S. and Canada), [1] [2] [3] is a designated area of controlled airspace surrounding a major airport where there is a high volume of traffic.