# How to board/exit commercial jets without a jet bridge?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 10, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-board-exit-commercial-jets-without-a-jet-bridge/821107 "2018-09-10T15:30:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-board-exit-commercial-jets-without-a-jet-bridge/821107/41 "2018-09-12T01:15:09Z")

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> [@Lord\_Feldon](#):
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> Dulles has switched to regular gates for most flights, but international arrivals still have to use the mobile lounges unless they’re United or Star Alliance flights. The second class airlines don’t get to use the gates that connect directly to customs.

Interesting. I did fly Munich-to-Dulles once (my first international arrival in the U.S., in fact), but it was on United. I’m enough of an airport geek that if I’d known other airlines used the lounges as originally designed, I might have gone out of my way to take one.

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