Originally Posted by nwa757

This morning in RDU there was a GoJet who was sitting in the runup pad with its lights left on (while dark out, facing oncoming taxiing aircraft).

Then came the absurdity:
After sitting there for a while they asked ground if they could taxi around the airport making all right turns in order to assist with fuel crossfeeding. I have never heard of anything so ridiculous.

I was just imagining being a paying passenger on this flight. Wow.

Ground said that they could send them to a pad where they would spin around in 360s as long as they wanted. They responded "sure sounds great".

A few questions
1) Why did they even consider this?
2) How the he!! did they explain this to passengers?
3) Why did the Captain decide to leave the gate with such an imbalance? Did he have any backbone to just have the fueler fix the problem, or to call maintenance and have them deal with the issue?

Pretty embarrassing to the piloting profession. Not trying to monday morning quarterback but I wouldn't have left the gate and put passengers in such an awkward strange situation...."spinning around on a taxiway due to a fuel problem."