FDX Fuel Savings program is a JOKE
Just got done with a week of flying west coast hub turns. Nice weather, however last night really took the cake. Flight plan had us programmed to land with a FAT of 24.o with NQA. Very nice. Arrived over Tammy with 24.8 and and was told to slow to 160 knots for the downwind to 18R. 33 mile final at 160 knots. Thats 60 miles in this configuration. Landed with 15.5
9000 pounds burn in the terminal area. And is memphis now a training ATC. Whats with the huge slow downs. There is normally a big gap of airplanes arriving from 12:00 AM to 12:30AM but if you have everbody in the terminal are doing 160 or something to that effect and the inbounds are roaring in at 420 knots the gap quickley closes.
So now it seem that you now have to not only take into account the wx and runway ops but wheather or not ATC will give you a huge slowdown and help you burn more gas.
So after landing I felt compelled to start the APU.
Sorry had to vent a little. Hey management wake up.