First officer reported concerns with having to ride a bus full of crammed passengers from the gate t...

Attributes
ACN	1737730
Time
Date	202003
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZZ.Airport
State Reference	FO
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

Narrative:

I worked flight abc out of ZZZZ; and operated out of a remote gate. The flight was full; and I was forced to ride on a packed bus to the plane from the gate crammed in with all of the passengers on my flight. This made me extremely uncomfortable given that we are putting ourselves at a much higher risk of being exposed [to the coronavirus] during a 4 day trip rather than staying at home. Crew should be given dedicated transport to airplanes at remote gates separated from passengers.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: First Officer reported concerns with having to ride a bus full of crammed passengers from the gate to the aircraft increasing their risk of being exposed to Coronavirus.

Narrative: I worked Flight ABC out of ZZZZ; and operated out of a remote gate. The flight was full; and I was forced to ride on a packed bus to the plane from the gate crammed in with all of the passengers on my flight. This made me extremely uncomfortable given that we are putting ourselves at a much higher risk of being exposed [to the Coronavirus] during a 4 day trip rather than staying at home. Crew should be given dedicated transport to airplanes at remote gates separated from passengers.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

First officer reported concerns with having to ride a bus full of crammed passengers from the gate to the aircraft increasing their risk of being exposed to coronavirus.