Originally Posted by
trip
Big mainline airline management is imposing fines on regional partners if the APU is run on the ground for more then 30 minutes. Teams are on the ground standing around to monitor this.
The offending Captain then gets to explain to his CP why he did this.
Never mind the fact no pre-conditioned air will never be routinely hooked up to an RJ when it pulls into the gate.
Enjoy your sweat box.
blows. well, actually it doesn't. the recent change at 9e is that you can leave the apu running even if youre abandoning the aircraft for a new crew at the gate so long as an acars message is transmitted about it.