Narrative:

I'm writing this report because I observed a third occurrence of this happening yesterday while holding behind two aircraft on J; short of the turn for eg. After getting their weather reroute; the first aircraft in line on J (an aircraft Y) was told to make the turn to hold short at eg. Aircraft Z was already holding short #1 on eg. Aircraft Y taxied to right of; but not quite abeam thankfully of aircraft Z and stopped when they saw how close they were. Aircraft Y was stopped near that painted eg box I keep mentioning. They then asked tower if they could move over to eh which they could because no one was there. Pilots are used to three hold points for 17R; but ef is temporarily closed for construction north of the pad. When they see an aircraft already holding at the northern-most point and are told to hold short eg; they attempt to hold to the right of what they think is ef. Also; there's a painted eg box about where in their minds will put them on eg between ef and eh. That painted eg box is for telling aircraft on left that the turn onto eg is approaching. I think a sequence sign-in message would be most effective. Having seen this now on three different flights; am I the only guy reporting this? I'll bet dfw tower can confirm this is occurring with some frequency.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier Captain reported witnessing re-occurring confusion from pilots at taxiways EH and EG in DFW airport.

Narrative: I'm writing this report because I observed a third occurrence of this happening yesterday while holding behind two aircraft on J; short of the turn for EG. After getting their weather reroute; the first aircraft in line on J (an Aircraft Y) was told to make the turn to hold short at EG. Aircraft Z was already holding short #1 on EG. Aircraft Y taxied to right of; but not quite abeam thankfully of Aircraft Z and stopped when they saw how close they were. Aircraft Y was stopped near that painted EG box I keep mentioning. They then asked Tower if they could move over to EH which they could because no one was there. Pilots are used to three hold points for 17R; but EF is temporarily closed for construction north of the pad. When they see an aircraft already holding at the northern-most point and are told to hold short EG; they attempt to hold to the right of what they think is EF. Also; there's a painted EG box about where in their minds will put them on EG between EF and EH. That painted EG box is for telling aircraft on L that the turn onto EG is approaching. I think a sequence sign-in message would be most effective. Having seen this now on three different flights; am I the only guy reporting this? I'll bet DFW Tower can confirm this is occurring with some frequency.

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.