What is the boarding bridge?

Boarding corridor bridge, also known as empty bridge or boarding bridge, is a facility in the airport terminal building, which extends from the boarding gate to the aircraft door to facilitate passengers to enter and leave the cabin.

Before the boarding bridge appeared, passengers had to walk on the asphalt road with the same height as the ground, and then climb the moving boarding ladder. At present, most airports in the world still use this boarding method, but it is usually a small airport that can only accommodate small planes.

In any weather conditions, the use of covered bridges can facilitate passengers to get on and off the plane without sun and rain. Its head end is fixed on the central axis of the boarding gate, the bridge body can move left and right, and both the head end and the tail end can be lifted, so it can be applied to various aircraft.

There is a control room at the tail end to control the movement of the bridge, and there is also a folding shed that can extend outward and be closely connected with the cabin door, so it is not affected by the weather. Although the covered bridge can move left and right, the airport usually draws the stop line of common models on the tarmac ground, so that the plane can stop accurately and the covered bridge does not need to move left and right often.

Classification and use of boarding bridges;

1, the passage parallel to the terminal building, arrives at the passengers, gets off the covered bridge, directly enters the passage and walks to the exit. Departing passengers will open the door of the passage, enter the passage and enter the covered bridge when boarding the plane.

2. Double-deck covered bridge: one leads to the arrival floor and the other leads to the departure floor.

3. Design floors. The covered bridge connects the first floor with the arrival floor. When departing passengers board the plane, they should go downstairs first and then go to the corridor bridge. Arrive at the passengers, get off the covered bridge and go straight to the exit.