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RoySFlying wrote:Passengers are generally directed to a boarding gate. The aircraft will be on a stand. The gate number and the stand number may be the same at some airports but at others they may be different. This will be particularly true of passengers being taken by bus to a remote stand.
rutankrd wrote:My understanding indeed aircraft park on apron stands and passengers embark/ disembark via terminal gates (doors) either via stairs or airbidges.
Its not uncommon for the same gate to have differing stands to suit differ aircraft gauges and could be denominated as for instance 42left 42centre and 42 right.
At some airports 42left and 42right might allow simultaneous regional jet occupation whilst the centre stand might allow just one 737/757/A32x to be parked at any one time.
Many airports also have numerical bus gates with no attached hardstanding.
Stand numbers are also necessary to identify remote parking and cargo parking positions.
Its actually rather easy to understand stand is a shortening of the English hardstanding meaning ground with a hardened material base for parking vehicles/carriages on.
Whilst gate is a shortening of gateway an aperture in a wall through which you might pass through.
Gate actually has much the same meaning as a door - the physical barrier used to secure closed a gateway aperture.
pangkinglim wrote:I see! Didn't know much about those L/C/R stands before! Thanks!!
pangkinglim wrote:So gate is actually inside the terminal building but stand means the parking spot of the plane. Do I get that right? Thanks.