11.   Now, people seeing off passengers will no longer be able to enter gate areas.

12.   Passengers should allow extra time before flights and assume that people who come to see them off or to meet them will be kept away from gate areas.

13.   So we walked back to the gate area, where the real poker game began.

14.   So the airport immediately halted all takeoffs, brought all taxiing planes back to their gates, and took everyone off the planes and into the gate areas.

15.   Terminals were evacuated last September after two ticketed passengers went to the gate area without going through metal detectors.

16.   The couple left the line of passengers trying to get rebooking, and sat with a cell phone in the gate area.

17.   This drama usually takes place in the gate area before boarding, although a second act may come when the plane has been fully boarded.

18.   Within the past year, for instance, United has introduced portable checkout units that are brought into the gate area during delays or cancellations.

19.   After evacuating and re-entering the airport with other passengers, Lasseter returned to the Northwest Airlines gate area to wait for another flight.

20.   Many fans arrived at the USAir gate area an hour before the team was due.