Gate (airport)

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A Gate in aviation is a section at an airport terminal for transferring passengers and airline crews to an aircraft. Passengers embark or disembark an aircraft through one of these methods:

• Jetway bridges
• Airstairs, either built into the aircraft or from a mobile vehicle
• Mobile lounges
• Leaving the aircraft via mobile steps and walking across the tarmac into or from the terminal building

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Gate at Nagoya Airport	Entrance to gates at Hanover/Langenhagen International Airport	Gate at Asheville Regional Airport	A sign at Gate E14 at Terminal E at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport indicating that the destination is Seoul, Korea
Gates in Concourse C of Washington Dulles International Airport, outside of Washington, D.C.	A Frontier Airlines gate in Concourse A (Gate A31) at Denver International Airport.	Gate D5 in Concourse D at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand.

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