Originally Posted by
Deez340
A real captain knows better than to take an airplane (especially the crj200) without an APU in the summer! Refuse the AC. God forbid maintenance would actually fix it. I have been quoted on more than one occasion as saying "if you're not going to fix this than you're left with two choices, find me another airplane or this airplane another Captain." things seem to magically get fixed.
In all seriousness, there was a well-circulated story that mesa killed an older gentleman a few years back due to heat stroke. Same story, 200 w/ no apu stuck in the lineup in PHX...in the summer.
The pilots got named in the lawsuit too.