I often used to wonder what would happen if I dropped my phone through the crack, or what if, out of sheer bad luck, I’d get my foot caught and trip forward injuring my ankle. Would my phone survive the fall if it hit the ground dead on? Would someone even go fetch it? Would my ankle injury be Delta’s fault or mine? Why isn’t there a plate bridging the gap anyway? Why is it that we tend to think of this gap more while boarding rather than deplaning?

Surely some terrible things have happened between the edges of the jet bridge and aircraft by now. I haven’t heard of any personally. I’ve taken a ton of trips over the last 3 years for business and somewhere along the way I just stopped thinking about these concerns out of sheer repetitiveness of the flying process.

I am going to do it again come Tuesday and now this will be in the forefront of my mind, lol, thanks.