Originally Posted by
Delta1067
It's not so much a passenger comfort issue but an issue regarding flying the airplane efficently. Most speed brake use is the result of poor pilot planning. Use them if you need them but if it was your plane and your gas bill I'm sure you would use them much less.
If the manufacturer, FAA, and airline didn't want you to use them, they wouldn't have put them on the plane. Don't buy into the old SWA crap about not using speedbrakes. Not to mention, there isn't a single thing in the FOM, FCTM, or AOM at Delta that restricts the use of, or talks about saving the company money by not using them.