Originally Posted by
AAdvocate
You sound like a joy to fly with on go home leg or trying to catch a commute, your FOs are probably rolling their eyes as you brag to them how safe and comfortable your flights are as you set the speed like a grandpa. Your time estimate is wrong. Rough estimate each .1 mach is 1 minute per hour, so 5 to 6 minutes on a Transcon. The difference between .76 and .80 is 24 minutes.
I'm all for flying the cost index and saving fuel......but go home leg is a different Animal, especially when I just spent 3 or 4 days going through this companies ****ed up operations.
den-phl, block on that is what like 3? Going 81 sure isn't efficient but feels good to save a couple minutes I guess. Like I said he saved four minutes.
If no one has a reasonable danger of missing a commute I don't go fast, gas is $5/gal. Sometimes being the adult isn't fun, who cares. You're probably going to wait for a gate anyways.
The worst was a CA I was with who taxi'd at 7 knots. Seven. They even knew I had a commute.