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Shutting down a motor and saving 600 lbs/45 mins/$2.50/gal is around $170 saved in fuel alone. Probably over $200 when you involve maintenance.
Plus APU runs the packs better. No excuse, just pure laziness.
I understand being frustrated with management, but burning this place to the ground will hurt us, not management. Their subpar leadership and inability to focus on morale is abundantly clear to everyone.
Our culture sucks. Half of our pilots don't care about saving gas or helping customers. The guy sitting 10 feet from the gate probably did not bother calling operations. I can hear it now "Not worth calling ops, they should know we're here. It's not our job to tell them we're here". Or the other common one "I'm not going to single engine taxi if we're just going to be waiting for a gate anyway."
How does that make any sense? Things aren't perfect so let's make them worse? Absolute morons. Don't complain if you're going to be a part of the problem. We are adults, management isn't going to hand us every fix to every little problem on a silver platter.
We need new leadership for new STRATEGY. But to fix the culture, it's going to take frontline people giving a damn.