Originally Posted by
sleeves
Wow...Ill say it again, we really need to get past the divisive crap. But since you seem to be incapable of such things. The whole APU off arrival is a Notrh procedure. The South guys always started the APU up, shut down the engines and ran the APU till external air was hooked up.
I have been on many 320's that were not running the APU for deplaning, going back to well before the merger.
I'll admit, I can't recall the exact date my regular monthly sauna treatments began - but it was about the time of the merger (+\- 6 mnths).
I believe (with only 3rdhand knowledge) it was created by zealous flt ops leadership trying to deliver econ value to Jeffy.
in my posts I'm not addressing who started the crazy apu off program - maybe it was Jeffy, a mutual enemy of north and south, let's say.
I'm not addressing the actual data on hot jets parsed into north and south;
I'm merely stating my own experience on my 2-4 rides/deadheads a mnth. and in my experience, guppies operated by south captains are toasty and steamy more than half the time. all other jets (320, 757, 767, 777,787,400) are quite comfortably cooled on almost every ride.
maybe the gupp caps just see me coming and crank the heat. who knows...