Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
Since you bring it up, what's the deal with you guys and burning gas in the pad? I've had to DH on several PCL flights where we pushed back the sat doing a runup for 20 minutes. Why are you always pushing overweight? I've flown 200/700/900 and never had this problem. Is it something weird in your op specs? Can you not defuel?
Defueling takes much longer, according to the folks that constantly over fuel us.
We push overweight due to poor DX planning, and wanting to accommodate pax and bags (and sometimes being given 1000s of #s more pax/bags than planned).
We are also landing weight limited for takeoff. We would have to re-route or change altitude or speed and re-release before takeoff.