Originally Posted by Omniscient

Do us a favor, stop doing the jobs of others. You are seriously making yourself the ramp supervisor by going down to remind them to do their job and hook up air and power? I guess this is why I don't get it, I dont do their job, only mine.

APU is on at the gate, once I see the ground power go green, thats step 1. Once I look out my window and see the air being hooked, thats step two. I turn the bleed off and once I feel cool air coming from the ground unit, then and only then do I turn the APU off. If all of this cant be accomplished in the 10 minutes it takes to shut down the engines, checklists, and pack bag, the APU with bleed stays on when I leave the plane for pax comfort as well as the FAs.

We are over a year into this new APU savings program and the weather is getting hotter. If they (the company) still cant get rampers to get air and power hooked up as soon as the plane comes in, there is no hope for it getting any better, anytime soon