Word: gating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon the skies above the White House Rose Garden were a dull pewter gray. The 400 guests arrived at the East Gate, had their credentials checked so that crashers could be spotted, and walked quickly through intermittent drizzle to shelter under the South Portico. It was not an auspicious beginning. Many guests thought that Tricia Nixon should move her wedding indoors to the East Room...
Over the loudspeaker in the Pan American terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport comes word that Flight 92 is now ready to board passengers. Obediently, the ticket holders gather their flight bags and file through the appropriate gate. Instead of finding themselves aboard an airplane, however, the bewildered travelers discover that they have entered what seems to be another waiting lounge, complete with upholstered blue seats and the soothing strains of recorded music. What ever happened to Flight 92 and faraway places? The doors finally close, and up front a dashingly costumed pilot checks...
...anachronistic as they seem, Plane Mates* represent just one more way in which airlines are attempting to ease the physical strain on air travelers at large airports, where the distances between ticket counters and loading gates (and between parking lots and terminal buildings) have grown to exhausting extremes. Negotiating that distance-especially for late arrivals who must carry their luggage directly to the loading gate, usually on the dead run-is a traumatic experience that is disenchanting increasing numbers of air travelers. At J.F.K., passengers may have to walk as far as 1,130 feet to reach their departure gate...
Moving Sidewalks. Baggage-laden passengers arriving at Cleveland's Hopkins International Airport 15 minutes before flight time, for example, stand a good chance of missing their plane if it is scheduled to depart from a distant gate in the new South Concourse wing. To carry the aged and infirm down that seemingly endless corridor, Hopkins International has put into service a small fleet of motorized carts...
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