Normally when you enter a jet bridge you’re taken to your aircraft. And then on the other end of the journey the jet bridge takes you into the terminal. At Minneapolis – St. Paul airport gate G13, in what seems like some sort of infinite regress, the jet bridge will simply take you to… another jet bridge.
The MSP airport shared time lapse video of crew “marrying” two jetbridges:
No, jet bridges marrying isn’t proof of traditionalist slippery slope criticisms leveled against Obergefell v. Hodges, and no the result isn’t little baby jet bridges.
Instead, it’s how the airport will connect gate G13, which will be used as a temporary international gate, with customs and immigration facilities at the airport. Passengers arriving at this gate, of course, cannot simply enter the terminal without going through immigration first.
This corridor made from a connection of jet bridges is expected to be in use through September during a ramp rehabilitation project which involves the closure of other international-capable gates.
(HT: Joe R.)
MSP is a very decent airport. Shame that the entire Midwest is a desert in economic and cultural terms. Sure there are nice companies like Target and 3M in Minneapolis, and a smattering of nice companies in Chicago and what have you. But the Midwest is what the coasts would be if the food sucked, nature sucked, weather sucked, culture sucked….
Still less annoying than the Dulles mobile lounges…
The broken up concrete on the other side of the jet bridges shows why they had to move them. The fact that an adjacent gate didn’t have FIS access necessitated the ‘marriage’
Hopefully the person who came up with this cost effective solution gets a bonus.
@ Alison those are fighting words, 100% inaccurate on all counts, and in any case have no place in a forum about some jet bridge thing. What’s wrong with you?
@Alison:
I could say that New York and San Francisco are crime-riddled, dirty, graffiti-laden, over-taxed areas that are filled with aggressive homeless people that local government won’t effectively help. But, unlike you, I won’t, because I don’t want to over-generalize.
I’m sure I’m missing a few details, but in the 1960’s and 1970’s the major companies in MSP (many more than described above) set aside 10% of their pre-tax profits for the arts. It made for quite a cultural landscape. Complain about the weather/nature but back off the rest. The weather is not going to come as a surprise to anyone.
Wow, Alison. What an insensitive and uneducated post. Very offensive as your comment could’ve been so much more positive and less decisive as you put it. Please be better for all of our sakes.
Apparent Allison has never visited our excellent theaters, symphonies, and museums here in the Twin Cities area. And did I mention places like the U of MN and the U of Wisconsin a few hours down the road? I moved here from New York City to St Paul and found a much friendlier, highly cultured, clean and efficient place to live. And nature sucks? How long does it take to get out in the farms and woods, the river valleys and country bike trails from where you live?
@Alison not sure where you live, but I’m glad I’m not your neighbor.
I’ve lived in Chicago for 15 years. It’s laughable to say this is an economic desert when the economy supports nearly 10 million people, our main airport is one of the most connected in the world and we have world-class education, cultural institutions, dining and healthcare.
While I find the winters in Chicago intolerable and the “go along to get along” midwestern passive-aggressiveness infuriating your claims that it’s a toilet are ill-informed, arrogant and just rude.
Allison. . .get over yourself. Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City all gems of this country if you ever bothered to get over your the east or west coast is the best attitude.
Why are we feeding the troll, exactly?
And now there’s malaria in Texas and Florida. Where is the shothole country now?
Jennifer, whose comment was more interesting: yours or Alison’s?
Trump wanted a $20 billion border wall and the solution was starting us right in the face all along. Just put these things right at the border and have the people loop around and come out the other end right back in Mexico.
Alison has obviously hit a nerve. She’s right. Ocean views are proven to benefit mental health. Definitionally one must be on the coast to benefit. As to education, our nation’s best are coastal. Restaurants, ditto.
It would be untrue to say that all coastal people are educated and cultured. It would be almost true to say that all educated and cultured people are coastal.
@Alison I would say the south is even worse and much hotter and fatter.
@CE explain to me how a body of water that you cannot see the other shoreline of is different depending on where it is located. And, by your logic, everyone living in Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, Palm Springs, Orlando, etc, should be walking around sobbing uncontrollably and practically suicidal because they are not near a beach.
You may find this shocking, but most people who live near the ocean rarely go look at it.
Minneapolis used to be nice – had the vibe of a clean, efficient, scandinavian city and people were generally on the same page about the benefits of hard work, education, and a strong family. It’s definitely moved away from that vibe now and will probably be similar to a cleveland or st louis in a generations time. Chicago will be a Detroit in the same time frame. People don’t like to admit it but if you want to be where the money and growth is, and the American cities of the next 100 years, you gotta go to the south, especially florida and texas.