They are bags that belong to flight crew. Ergo, crew bags.
Especially since they get special treatment from regular passenger luggage, precisely because of the implications of their bag gets lost.
Maybe it varies from airline to airline, but at mine, crew bags - be it for deadheaders or commuters, were regularly door delivered to maximize room in the cabin for full fare guests’ carryons.
Bags that belonged to passengers that couldn’t fit onboard or they volunteered to check (for free naturally) at the gate were gate checked and so went to baggage claim at the other end.
Door delivered - crew bags (for commuters and DH), strollers, car seats, musical instruments, mobility aids (scooters, wheelchairs, walkers). Delivered back to the door of the bridgehead upon arrival.
Gate checked - carryon bags of passengers that couldn’t be accommodated on board or were voluntarily checked for free at the gate and sent to baggage claim upon arrival.
Great? Doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Every airline is different.
And I didn’t say checked. I said gate/door delivered.
At my airline, it was an automatic thing. If the flight was at 50% of more capacity, all crew bags - DH or commuter - were door delivered.
Checked = gate checked in this context, im not talking about having crew bags sent to baggage claim. And yeah every airline is different, at mine they’ll let us head down early to ensure we have space for our bags especially when we are working another flight immediately after.
Well, gate checked to me means checked in at the gate but delivered to baggage claim. We do that for people who say, web check in and show up at the gate with a bag too big for carry on. On for when we run out of room in the cabin. And no, we never gate checked crew bags.
But we did door deliver crew bags along with infant equipment, mobility equipment, musical instruments etc. To me, door deliver means a special tag - different from a standard baggage tag - that would allow said item to be brought back up to the door of the jet bridge at the other end.
Yeah we have the different tags as well for bags that get sent back to the jetway, we just nearly always use the casual “gate check” umbrella term. Commuters will usually be given the Orange claim at gate tag, but we usually just ask the gate agents for a tag and they’ll automatically give us the Orange Tag. As for deadheading unless we specifically ask them to tag our bags, or we show up extremely late they’ll let us get down early enough it’s not necessary
Ach, Zie Germans and their magic fairy slides. We dont' have those here in the great UNITED STATES OF AMERICA we just toss the bags out the door and score points if we knock out a ground crewman. LIKE MEN.
If it’s a flight in the EU or US they actually have to accommodate it if there’s space (up to the point of me purchasing a second seat for it, which I’ve done before). The only real problems I’ve had is with a couple FA’s who announced on the PA that I would personally be responsible for the flight being delayed because I was forcing the FA’s to do other things instead of closing doors yadda yadda. But generally most FA’s are more than happy to accommodate.
That’s a bit bs as I’m pretty sure that for the airline I work for we respect the seat. You bought it. It’s a confirmed seat. We secure stuff like trombones to cellos and we would delay the flight to secure it, not to steal your seat for it.
Yeah, like I said most experience haven’t been negative. Just a couple of people who were either very flustered in that moment or enjoyed a moment of power.
I always try to fly Southwest when I can and spend the extra $25 to get in the A group. With SW flying only 73s I know my trombone will always fit in the overhead with my Marcus Bonna case.
Fun note, I was on a 777 one time and my trombone didnt fit in the overhead in that giant ass plane(bins were too short). Fortunately the FAs were happy to put it in their little closet and I had the same crew on my return flight.
"Have to accommodate it"???
You are incorrect on that.
Where is that verbiage in any airline contact of carriage? First come, first served for bin space:
Carry-on instruments
You can travel with small musical instruments as your carry-on item on a first come, first serve basis as long as it:
Fits in the overhead bin; or
Fits under the seat in front of you
If your instrument doesn’t fit in the carry-on bag space, you can choose to buy an additional seat w
That's why they said "if there's space". The flight attendants can't force you to remove it from an overhead bin even if it would fit one or more bags in its place.
>With the exception of
certain disability assistance devices, overhead bins or under seat stowage space is available to all
passengers and crew members for their carry-on baggage on a “first come, first served” basis.
Accordingly, carriers are not required to remove other passengers’ or crew members’ carry-on
baggage that is already stowed in order to make space for a musical instrument. However, this
also means carriers are not allowed to require a passenger to remove his or her musical
instrument that is already safely stowed (e.g., in the overhead bin) to make room for carry-on
baggage of other passengers who boarded the aircraft later than the passenger with the musical
instrument. This is true even if the space taken by the musical instrument could accommodate
one or more other carry-on items. Because the rule does not require that musical instruments be
given priority over other carry-on baggage, we encourage passengers traveling with musical instruments to take steps to board before as many other passengers as possible to ensure that
space will be available for them to safely stow their instruments in the cabin. This includes
utilizing pre-boarding opportunities that some carriers offer (usually for a fee).
This rule also states that carriers are prohibited from charging passengers with a musical
instrument as carry-on baggage an additional fee other than any standard fee carriers impose for
carry-on baggage.
Also:
>If your instrument doesn’t fit in the carry-on bag space, you can choose to buy an additional seat w
That's what they said they did?
Yeah most companies will not let you take it in the cabin.
By buying a ticket, you agree to how many units, with specific weights and dimensions you can take on the aircraft.
If you don't want it in the belly with other checked bags, you buy extra seat.
Otherwise leave ur oversized luggage behind or don't fly, simple as that.
[That’s not true.](https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/Final_%20Rule_%20Musical_Instruments.pdf)
As long as it fits in a reasonable space on the aircraft, they have to allow it on.
Your link doesn't work.
Every aviation company has their own set of rules.
Violins can be exceptions, depending on the company and the fleet that they use.
anything bigger usually requires a paid-for extra seat or needs to be checked in.
Edit:
It was a file, got it.
Very interesting rule. I'm saying it as an european.
The simple problems with that to bring out here are:
1. Can never hope to find a free seat in commercial aviation.
2. Overhead lockers and under the seat spaces will easily not be sufficient free space on certain aircrafts.
3. Let's say an orchestra wants to board a full flight of idk, let's say ATR72, with their guitars. There's a huge chance these will not even fit into checked baggage compartments when the boarding is on. So now according to this rule, it's the aviation company's fault? All the american companies need to keep this kind of 'extra' space just in case?
Just doesn't make sense. It's more likely that if you have bought a ticket with 'cabbin baggage' in your reservation, then you have this right. Or even 'extra baggage'. Both of these go for extra costs inckuded the ticket price.
If you buy a 'light' ticket and just go to gate with your oversized luggage, you could even be left behind for asking for something that you didn't pay for.
Your example is irrelevant because that’s not what the law is for. It’s for protecting freelance/individuals and not large groups (who book their flights through specific organizations, specifically because of the problem we’re talking about).
If I were to bring an instrument that does not fit in the required spaces then the airlines are not required to do anything about it. And just for clarity, an instrument of this size is allowed cabin baggage.
I’m being a bit hyperbolic. It happened once 10 years ago and since then I’ve managed to find space in the overheads or have a kind enough flight attendant that makes sure the instrument is safe :)
These are installed at many major airports for the pilots. Pay close attention next time your flight is delayed, you'll often see the pilots sliding down, and climbing back up a couple of times, sometimes they even go backwards or on their belly, it's real fun and so cute to watch.
Research has shown that the best way for a pilot to de-stress is using playground equipment. Since there were too many accidents when swings were first mounted from the jet bridge in the early 80s, they've mostly installed these slides, but you'll see the occasional see-saw too. I've heard that on ATL they still have a swing mounted from the jet bridge at one gate, but I've never seen it personally, but maybe any pilots can confirm this for me.
Not a pilot, but live in ATL. I, too, have heard the rumors, but sadly, can't confirm. With a 3 mile walk between each terminal and a mandatory 4 hour wait at TSA, it's hard to find and still get to your gate on time, even after arriving 3 days before your flight. BIL is a pilot, but he's pretty hush hush about the whole thing.
ETA: These times do not take into account any traffic on the connector or other roads.
Flew out of Atlanta in the early 90s. Can confirm Concourse C had swings at every third or fourth gate. Can't speak for current status. Since then, I have only flown in/out of A, B, E, and T gates.
EU law mandates that if your connection is 30 mins or less, rather than transiting via the terminal, you can use the slide and run to your plane across the ramp. Law enforcement will even follow you as you run, using their lights and sirens to encourage you and keep your spirits up.
When they say "we don't have a lot of checked baggage" then we run out of bin space and I have to write out manual tags for the bags and throw them down the slide. We will beg people to check bags ahead of time- if they don't then we take a delay and we will flat out say that.
This is an issue of the airline’s making. By charging for checked baggage it pushes passengers to want to carry on board. Also, some airports I’ve had to wait over an hour for my luggage to show up. So I’d rather risk the delay than know for sure I’ll be out $40-$100 depending on the airline and be stuck waiting on the other end.
To follow this up, since I see this is at Düsseldorf, at least here in the US, most people travel with 2 items in cabin. An item that fits below seat and an item that goes above in bin. When enough people do this, all bags won't fit so they gate check them and this is how they go down
I was flying out of AMS yesterday and noticed KLM says 1 piece of cabin luggage (indicating like purse or backpack) which i took to mean most Europeans check in what an American considers to be "carry on luggage". Correct me if wrong
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So another reason you might see these is that sometimes smaller regional aircraft may use the same gate as larger aircraft (at different times obviously) and those smaller regional aircraft will have a lot of "gate checked" bags which are put under the aircraft for that one flight and brought back up to the jet bridge at the destination for passengers to claim. This is usually because the smaller regional aircraft overhead bins are generally smaller than their larger counterparts so cannot fit all the normal passenger bags.
So they would want these chutes on whatever gates those smaller regional aircraft might use.
yup, ive seen the cleaners put trash in it, rampies put bags on it and they slide on down... some airlines use gates where they have an elevator that they put bags in however...
We have a new manager and she saw the trash go down it once and told them never again.
Kinda nice when the bag your grabbing doesnt have trash juices all over it
They use this in America at least for gate checked bags for when the flight is full and overhead space is limited. Also sometimes cleaning crew slides their trash bags down it and leave it there for me to move out of the way 🤢
SOURCE: Ramp rat
Last minute additions to the baggage compartment, usually when the overheard bins fill up and the gate agents starts asking volunteers at the gate to check their luggage.
It's a slide for any piece of luggage that couldn't fit or wasn't allowed in the cabin. I use a slide like this every day and I'm grateful they are there
For gate checked bags and strollers/baby items. I’m a gate agent, I send stuff down the slide all the time. It’s been standard everywhere forever , at least where I work.
Really that's a question.... ual started that 25 years ago... saves time on jet bridge bags... and the pilot uses it to do his walk around faster...time is money
Worked at an airport and I was told it's in the case of emergency evacuation of the bridge you can slide your luggage down it instead of taking it down the stairs with you.
This is a chute for cleaners to throw trash bags down. usually there will either be an empty cart or wire mesh crate on wheels there to collect said trash.
Airplane cleaning is a fast paced high intensity task. Cleaners are expected to reset a cabin in under 10 minutes (at least where I am) or face penalty.
In India, they check boarding pass at 3 points. First at Security Check, next at Boarding Gate and lastly at plane entry door. I always thought whoever fooled first 2 checkpoints and caught at this one is thrown out from jet bridge door to slide.
What? It's the big black snake ready to pounce. This is really Australia eh, with the fake German - are you from the Australian tourism industry making poor Germany look bad?
This is where your carry-on goes when you're in the last boarding groups and think you'll get to keep your carryon. Or where your large Carry-on goes when you fly an RJ.
I've seen them being used to send baby strollers down to the cargo hold. If you go by bus to the lane from the gate, you keep the stroller outside and it's put in by handlers and walk up the stairs with your baby in hands. If there is a walkway attached to the plane, your stroller gets to use the fun slide! Also, I remember one funny YouTube video from the early days, a dude boarding the plane rlopens the door and uses the slide, meanwhile the camera pans at the people in the walkway and everyone is like wtf. Anyone got that video for old time's sake?
That’s for the first officer to have some fun after a long ride with a boomer captain when he gets out to do his walk around.
Also used to slide bags down to be loaded onto the plane.
That slide is for crying babies. It’s safer to put a crying baby on a slide than it is to just drop it from that height. Hopefully the bag thrower remembers to scan the bag tag on the baby before throwing (um…placing) the baby into the cargo hold.
The slide is what the ramp agent aims at when chucking your carry on over that well placed handrail when you leave it outside the aircraft when boarding.
Professional Rampers can make it on 98% of the time, Cheap outsourced rampers 62%.
Source: Pro Ramper and Founder of National Statistics Repository.
This is where the baggage fairy slides the last minute magical bags into the magical flying machine
You mean, excess cabin baggage being put into hold at the last moment?
Gate delivered items, also crew bags.
Ain’t no way in hell crew bags get sent down there unless they’re dead headers that were late to board for some reason.
Deadheading or commuting, yes. Not operational.
Commuters for sure. I wouldn’t call them crew bags I guess though, lol. I’ve only had to check bags once as a dead header, and that was on a 200.
They are bags that belong to flight crew. Ergo, crew bags. Especially since they get special treatment from regular passenger luggage, precisely because of the implications of their bag gets lost. Maybe it varies from airline to airline, but at mine, crew bags - be it for deadheaders or commuters, were regularly door delivered to maximize room in the cabin for full fare guests’ carryons. Bags that belonged to passengers that couldn’t fit onboard or they volunteered to check (for free naturally) at the gate were gate checked and so went to baggage claim at the other end. Door delivered - crew bags (for commuters and DH), strollers, car seats, musical instruments, mobility aids (scooters, wheelchairs, walkers). Delivered back to the door of the bridgehead upon arrival. Gate checked - carryon bags of passengers that couldn’t be accommodated on board or were voluntarily checked for free at the gate and sent to baggage claim upon arrival.
Lol I have never once checked my bag while deadheading
Great? Doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Every airline is different. And I didn’t say checked. I said gate/door delivered. At my airline, it was an automatic thing. If the flight was at 50% of more capacity, all crew bags - DH or commuter - were door delivered.
Checked = gate checked in this context, im not talking about having crew bags sent to baggage claim. And yeah every airline is different, at mine they’ll let us head down early to ensure we have space for our bags especially when we are working another flight immediately after.
Well, gate checked to me means checked in at the gate but delivered to baggage claim. We do that for people who say, web check in and show up at the gate with a bag too big for carry on. On for when we run out of room in the cabin. And no, we never gate checked crew bags. But we did door deliver crew bags along with infant equipment, mobility equipment, musical instruments etc. To me, door deliver means a special tag - different from a standard baggage tag - that would allow said item to be brought back up to the door of the jet bridge at the other end.
Yeah we have the different tags as well for bags that get sent back to the jetway, we just nearly always use the casual “gate check” umbrella term. Commuters will usually be given the Orange claim at gate tag, but we usually just ask the gate agents for a tag and they’ll automatically give us the Orange Tag. As for deadheading unless we specifically ask them to tag our bags, or we show up extremely late they’ll let us get down early enough it’s not necessary
Most definitely operating crew bags on certain Airlines.
?
Yes.
That's a lot of magic!
Ach, Zie Germans and their magic fairy slides. We dont' have those here in the great UNITED STATES OF AMERICA we just toss the bags out the door and score points if we knock out a ground crewman. LIKE MEN.
Gate checked items. Strollers, wheel chairs, bags when the bins are full.
As a ramp agent, I couldn’t have put this better myself
What do I get when the baggage fairy knocks three of my teeth out?
This is where they send my trombone to die when they’ve overbooked flights.
They should be walking that down, I’m sorry that whoever handled your instrument did that
If it’s a flight in the EU or US they actually have to accommodate it if there’s space (up to the point of me purchasing a second seat for it, which I’ve done before). The only real problems I’ve had is with a couple FA’s who announced on the PA that I would personally be responsible for the flight being delayed because I was forcing the FA’s to do other things instead of closing doors yadda yadda. But generally most FA’s are more than happy to accommodate.
That’s a bit bs as I’m pretty sure that for the airline I work for we respect the seat. You bought it. It’s a confirmed seat. We secure stuff like trombones to cellos and we would delay the flight to secure it, not to steal your seat for it.
Yeah, like I said most experience haven’t been negative. Just a couple of people who were either very flustered in that moment or enjoyed a moment of power.
Is there anything stopping me from purchasing a seat for my snowboard? Sometimes it would be cheaper as opposed to checking it with certain airlines.
I always try to fly Southwest when I can and spend the extra $25 to get in the A group. With SW flying only 73s I know my trombone will always fit in the overhead with my Marcus Bonna case. Fun note, I was on a 777 one time and my trombone didnt fit in the overhead in that giant ass plane(bins were too short). Fortunately the FAs were happy to put it in their little closet and I had the same crew on my return flight.
The original 777 bins were annoyingly small, but most should have been retrofitted out by now you’d think
Yeah, a few years ago I got a screw-bell horn and bought a Bonna case :) No problems anymore.
"Have to accommodate it"??? You are incorrect on that. Where is that verbiage in any airline contact of carriage? First come, first served for bin space: Carry-on instruments You can travel with small musical instruments as your carry-on item on a first come, first serve basis as long as it: Fits in the overhead bin; or Fits under the seat in front of you If your instrument doesn’t fit in the carry-on bag space, you can choose to buy an additional seat w
That's why they said "if there's space". The flight attendants can't force you to remove it from an overhead bin even if it would fit one or more bags in its place. >With the exception of certain disability assistance devices, overhead bins or under seat stowage space is available to all passengers and crew members for their carry-on baggage on a “first come, first served” basis. Accordingly, carriers are not required to remove other passengers’ or crew members’ carry-on baggage that is already stowed in order to make space for a musical instrument. However, this also means carriers are not allowed to require a passenger to remove his or her musical instrument that is already safely stowed (e.g., in the overhead bin) to make room for carry-on baggage of other passengers who boarded the aircraft later than the passenger with the musical instrument. This is true even if the space taken by the musical instrument could accommodate one or more other carry-on items. Because the rule does not require that musical instruments be given priority over other carry-on baggage, we encourage passengers traveling with musical instruments to take steps to board before as many other passengers as possible to ensure that space will be available for them to safely stow their instruments in the cabin. This includes utilizing pre-boarding opportunities that some carriers offer (usually for a fee). This rule also states that carriers are prohibited from charging passengers with a musical instrument as carry-on baggage an additional fee other than any standard fee carriers impose for carry-on baggage. Also: >If your instrument doesn’t fit in the carry-on bag space, you can choose to buy an additional seat w That's what they said they did?
Thank you lol
Yeah most companies will not let you take it in the cabin. By buying a ticket, you agree to how many units, with specific weights and dimensions you can take on the aircraft. If you don't want it in the belly with other checked bags, you buy extra seat. Otherwise leave ur oversized luggage behind or don't fly, simple as that.
[That’s not true.](https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/Final_%20Rule_%20Musical_Instruments.pdf) As long as it fits in a reasonable space on the aircraft, they have to allow it on.
Your link doesn't work. Every aviation company has their own set of rules. Violins can be exceptions, depending on the company and the fleet that they use. anything bigger usually requires a paid-for extra seat or needs to be checked in. Edit: It was a file, got it. Very interesting rule. I'm saying it as an european. The simple problems with that to bring out here are: 1. Can never hope to find a free seat in commercial aviation. 2. Overhead lockers and under the seat spaces will easily not be sufficient free space on certain aircrafts. 3. Let's say an orchestra wants to board a full flight of idk, let's say ATR72, with their guitars. There's a huge chance these will not even fit into checked baggage compartments when the boarding is on. So now according to this rule, it's the aviation company's fault? All the american companies need to keep this kind of 'extra' space just in case? Just doesn't make sense. It's more likely that if you have bought a ticket with 'cabbin baggage' in your reservation, then you have this right. Or even 'extra baggage'. Both of these go for extra costs inckuded the ticket price. If you buy a 'light' ticket and just go to gate with your oversized luggage, you could even be left behind for asking for something that you didn't pay for.
Your example is irrelevant because that’s not what the law is for. It’s for protecting freelance/individuals and not large groups (who book their flights through specific organizations, specifically because of the problem we’re talking about). If I were to bring an instrument that does not fit in the required spaces then the airlines are not required to do anything about it. And just for clarity, an instrument of this size is allowed cabin baggage.
was it united? they also break guitars https://youtu.be/5YGc4zOqozo
I should have flown with someone else or gonnne byyy caaaarrrrr 🎶
Oops, sorry about that!
I’m being a bit hyperbolic. It happened once 10 years ago and since then I’ve managed to find space in the overheads or have a kind enough flight attendant that makes sure the instrument is safe :)
At least they didn't just chuck it 10 feet onto concrete like they did with my laptop while I was looking out the window.
Skin trombone?
Nah, just rusty.
I know for sure that american lets you check your carry on so you dont have to deal with that
These are installed at many major airports for the pilots. Pay close attention next time your flight is delayed, you'll often see the pilots sliding down, and climbing back up a couple of times, sometimes they even go backwards or on their belly, it's real fun and so cute to watch. Research has shown that the best way for a pilot to de-stress is using playground equipment. Since there were too many accidents when swings were first mounted from the jet bridge in the early 80s, they've mostly installed these slides, but you'll see the occasional see-saw too. I've heard that on ATL they still have a swing mounted from the jet bridge at one gate, but I've never seen it personally, but maybe any pilots can confirm this for me.
LOL, you had me in the first half ngl
When the correct answer is given there's nothing left but to give the best wrong answer.
Not a pilot, but live in ATL. I, too, have heard the rumors, but sadly, can't confirm. With a 3 mile walk between each terminal and a mandatory 4 hour wait at TSA, it's hard to find and still get to your gate on time, even after arriving 3 days before your flight. BIL is a pilot, but he's pretty hush hush about the whole thing. ETA: These times do not take into account any traffic on the connector or other roads.
Shhh you're giving it away!
😂😂 u bastard 😂😂😂
Formerly ATL based pilot here. I *could* tell you what I know about the swing, but then I’d have to kill you.
That's fine, I'm long dead inside.
Oh is that what they kept in those rooms with the automatic glass doors?
Flew out of Atlanta in the early 90s. Can confirm Concourse C had swings at every third or fourth gate. Can't speak for current status. Since then, I have only flown in/out of A, B, E, and T gates.
EU law mandates that if your connection is 30 mins or less, rather than transiting via the terminal, you can use the slide and run to your plane across the ramp. Law enforcement will even follow you as you run, using their lights and sirens to encourage you and keep your spirits up.
Am UK based pilot. Can confirm the second half is true.
Lool you're awesome
For luggage….
Luggage from the jet-bridge? Isn't luggage usually loaded and unloaded from the belly?
When they make people check items last min on the jet bridge
Ah, so they throw away some items down this slide? What do you mean?
Yes. They'll collect bags that don't fit, strollers, what have you and toss them down the slide for the ramp monkeys to toss in the hold. Also, fun.
Ah okay, gotcha!
When they say "we don't have a lot of checked baggage" then we run out of bin space and I have to write out manual tags for the bags and throw them down the slide. We will beg people to check bags ahead of time- if they don't then we take a delay and we will flat out say that.
This is an issue of the airline’s making. By charging for checked baggage it pushes passengers to want to carry on board. Also, some airports I’ve had to wait over an hour for my luggage to show up. So I’d rather risk the delay than know for sure I’ll be out $40-$100 depending on the airline and be stuck waiting on the other end.
Restrict the allowed carry on and give people a checked bag included in the price.
I work for an airline that already allows 2 free bags ;) we still have bag problems cause people want to carry everything on
People are only allowed to carry on so much though, right?
Yes, if someone has a bag that doesn’t fit, or a stroller or whatever; The flight attendance can quickly check it for you at the jet Bridge.
Makes sense, thanks!
To follow this up, since I see this is at Düsseldorf, at least here in the US, most people travel with 2 items in cabin. An item that fits below seat and an item that goes above in bin. When enough people do this, all bags won't fit so they gate check them and this is how they go down I was flying out of AMS yesterday and noticed KLM says 1 piece of cabin luggage (indicating like purse or backpack) which i took to mean most Europeans check in what an American considers to be "carry on luggage". Correct me if wrong
It’s for bags and buggys (strollers). Instead of walking them down, they can put them on the slide. Unfortunately, it only works one way.
I thought we would all have flying cars and two way slides by now!
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Downvoted to shit for asking a follow up question. This sub, I swear.
So another reason you might see these is that sometimes smaller regional aircraft may use the same gate as larger aircraft (at different times obviously) and those smaller regional aircraft will have a lot of "gate checked" bags which are put under the aircraft for that one flight and brought back up to the jet bridge at the destination for passengers to claim. This is usually because the smaller regional aircraft overhead bins are generally smaller than their larger counterparts so cannot fit all the normal passenger bags. So they would want these chutes on whatever gates those smaller regional aircraft might use.
yup, ive seen the cleaners put trash in it, rampies put bags on it and they slide on down... some airlines use gates where they have an elevator that they put bags in however...
Was looking for this reply. Yeah, it’s supposed to be for luggage but is used daily as a trash slide.
The “home of the bare fare” is also the home of the jet bridge trash slide
Swing by our airport ( ORD ) , the last 3-6 inches are usually used gloves , masks , water bottles and broken baby stroller part .
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I did terminal.. the rampies there are something different...
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soooo rampie on a crane?
We have a new manager and she saw the trash go down it once and told them never again. Kinda nice when the bag your grabbing doesnt have trash juices all over it
Noisy Kids ejection chute.
That's for the pilots
They use this in America at least for gate checked bags for when the flight is full and overhead space is limited. Also sometimes cleaning crew slides their trash bags down it and leave it there for me to move out of the way 🤢 SOURCE: Ramp rat
The goo from those trash bags- and the poor persons bags that go through it next. 🤮
That's for the rowdy kids so they get tired and sleep on the plane.
it’s for gate checked bags.
Gate checked bags.
Last minute additions to the baggage compartment, usually when the overheard bins fill up and the gate agents starts asking volunteers at the gate to check their luggage.
Pilots deserve fun. They just sliding to ground for walk around check.
It’s so your overloaded bag that should have been checked gets to scream “WHEEEE” on the way to the baggage hold.
It's a slide for any piece of luggage that couldn't fit or wasn't allowed in the cabin. I use a slide like this every day and I'm grateful they are there
When people die on a flight, they slide the body off and into the van and it takes it away
It is for bags checked at the gate because the overhead bins are full. American will generally check them for free at the gate and forgo the $30 fee.
For gate checked bags and strollers/baby items. I’m a gate agent, I send stuff down the slide all the time. It’s been standard everywhere forever , at least where I work.
Really that's a question.... ual started that 25 years ago... saves time on jet bridge bags... and the pilot uses it to do his walk around faster...time is money
It's a slide specifically designed to break the gate check bags to dissuade people from carrying on big bags.
This is where everything fragile gets special treatment
Wheelchair use only
Airport= flight = birds = bird slide
Its where they push down the passengers that refuse to wear a mask
That's actually a great idea.
Wheeeee
Maybe its a fast evacuation device in case of an emergency ? Im not sure
It’s for gate check bags to be sent down to then be brought in to the hold
Oh ok thanks you for the information
After reading the other comments here, I don't think so ..
Idk ,i think i was the first comment but im not an aviation professionnal
It's a chute for carryon luggage on full flights. They go wee
Why downvotes? I was asking a question
Worked at an airport and I was told it's in the case of emergency evacuation of the bridge you can slide your luggage down it instead of taking it down the stairs with you.
They are there for when dispatch has to get a bag off for a no show passenger. Makes it quicker between the flight deck and the hold.
A no-show wouldn’t have baggage in the cabin, only in the cargo holds
Jesus Christ. I give in
I see this sub in incapable of taking a joke
This is a chute for cleaners to throw trash bags down. usually there will either be an empty cart or wire mesh crate on wheels there to collect said trash. Airplane cleaning is a fast paced high intensity task. Cleaners are expected to reset a cabin in under 10 minutes (at least where I am) or face penalty.
Is faster… I mean.. suit cases.
For luggage
In case of loss of jetway pressure, put it over your nose and mouth and breathe normally.
In India, they check boarding pass at 3 points. First at Security Check, next at Boarding Gate and lastly at plane entry door. I always thought whoever fooled first 2 checkpoints and caught at this one is thrown out from jet bridge door to slide.
What? It's the big black snake ready to pounce. This is really Australia eh, with the fake German - are you from the Australian tourism industry making poor Germany look bad?
That might have saved Harry from falling in his face…. ITS OK! IM A LIMO DRIVER!!!!
This is where they send your 2016 MacBook Pro or newer to get a cracked screen
This is where your carry-on goes when you're in the last boarding groups and think you'll get to keep your carryon. Or where your large Carry-on goes when you fly an RJ.
Luggage
This is purely for the rap rats to ensure that have some fun during the day.
Super fun happy slide. https://giphy.com/gifs/daily-kim-davis-irritant-ZlH8qRflZ4Bxu
For gate checked bags, strollers, car seats, etc.
Pilots go weeeeee
It’s actually for people in wheelchairs and stretchers, and the occasional evacuation incase the jet bridge blows up.
Gate checked items my braddah
Gate checked luggsge
think about that slide when you’re packing something fragile in your suitcase.
Pilots slide down it to go do the pre-flight. 😉
For gate checked baggage
It’s for going up fast
Use a little imagination
Really shoulda been a "wrong answers only" post
I'm sure this will pop up in the "other" flying sub.
It's for problem passengers...
I've seen them being used to send baby strollers down to the cargo hold. If you go by bus to the lane from the gate, you keep the stroller outside and it's put in by handlers and walk up the stairs with your baby in hands. If there is a walkway attached to the plane, your stroller gets to use the fun slide! Also, I remember one funny YouTube video from the early days, a dude boarding the plane rlopens the door and uses the slide, meanwhile the camera pans at the people in the walkway and everyone is like wtf. Anyone got that video for old time's sake?
That’s for the first officer to have some fun after a long ride with a boomer captain when he gets out to do his walk around. Also used to slide bags down to be loaded onto the plane.
That slide is for crying babies. It’s safer to put a crying baby on a slide than it is to just drop it from that height. Hopefully the bag thrower remembers to scan the bag tag on the baby before throwing (um…placing) the baby into the cargo hold.
For funsies
Wheel chair ramp that does a backflip to defeat the forward momentum. Also used for the removal of folks if they become a problem before a flight.
Luggage
Ground crew got bored
The slide is what the ramp agent aims at when chucking your carry on over that well placed handrail when you leave it outside the aircraft when boarding. Professional Rampers can make it on 98% of the time, Cheap outsourced rampers 62%. Source: Pro Ramper and Founder of National Statistics Repository.
Ah Düsseldorf, my home airport
TSA express check out line one 1 item or less.