What is the correct term for the thing you walk down to board a commercial plane?
- Jinx
An airbridge.
or a jetway.
It’s a “Passenger Boarding Bridge”. A lot of them are made by Jetway, so sometimes people call them Jetways.
I’ve always heard it called a jetway.
Or, what everyone before me said.
Much like Kleenex or Xerox or Tylenol or Jell-O, I suppose.
Very few people walk down Kleenex or Jell-O
…successfully, anyway!
Is it ever called a gangway? - Jinx
Gangways are temporary structures. I suppose that in an emergency the ground crew could build one, but I’d rather wait for a staircase.
Fly every week. Everyone I’ve ever heard talk about them calls them jetways. Every reference I’ve ever heard in pop culture or the media is “jetway.”
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In Chicago, gangways refer to the space between houses or, more often, apartment buildings. Its typically just a few fet wide, dark and sometimes covered.
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I would say aerobridge
Yeah, I recall hearing “jetways” over “aerobridge”, in the Mid-Atlantic USA. But, I don’t fly too often…even prior to the events of 9/11. - Jinx
My impression is that it’s usually called an airbridge in Europe, Australia and Asia (or, at least, the few airports in Asia that I’ve visited); I’ve never heard “jetway”.
Could it be called Rio, by Duran Duran?
Every since listening to Arlo Guthrie talk about his experiences in one, I’ve called it “the time tunnel.”