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Originally Posted by Paul Kantu
Hi everybody. I was wondering if anyone can help me about this subject. I'm a university student and we were asked to design a concept that will board passengers onto any airplane directly from the shuttle. I know... it sounds ridiculus but we have to do it. when i need to know the general feeling around this idea. The main research is whether there will ever be a market for this sort of idea. And if so what type of market will it be.
I will really appreciate a much inputs as possible! Thanx
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Hi Paul;
I am not sure exactly what you mean here and please clarify. Assuming that a plane is parked away from the Terminal and if you are talking about a vehicle that passengers board at the terminal (shuttle) and then this vehicle is then driven to where the plane is parked and then attaches itself to a plane, then this has already been done. It comes under several names:-
Passenger Transfer Vehicle
Plane-Mates
passenger boarding bridges
Jet Bridges
They are currently used at JFK, Washington Dulles. Here is a link to a company that makes them too:-
http://www.accessairsystems.com/planemate02.html
If you do a Google search on "plane mate" with the quotes you should find more information.
Here are a few pictures:-
The idea never really took off.
Anyway hope this helps.
--Mohsin