Originally Posted by
Jeffdh17
I broke my personal record on JFK taxi times on Tuesday. 5.5 hours. Yes you read that correct. A five and one half hour taxi before takeoff!!!!!! Prior record was 4 hours. Total credit for the trip from JFK to AUS was 9 hours. One leg and nine hours, now that's productive! With the deadhead to JFK I credited around 11.5 hours for the day. Maybe I should put a request in for more trips like this on the management survey...lol.
I did that last month too. But it was 6:54 total to AUS. Interesting thing though is in the 90 max fuel is about 19,500lbs and we were 18,340 Min/TO. We made a right turn out of LA onto ALPHA and taxied down to the end of 13R. We met the traffic around Q and I called ground and we were #50 for T/O. (we were taking off of the 4'S.) We went all the way down to the beginning of 13R and then back on 13R. When we got abeam LA again I called ground as we only had 300lbs of taxi fuel left. At that point we were #25. Obviously we could not make it so we did a pit stop back at the ramp for a top off and then called ground and told them we either needed to get back in line where we left off or we would cancel the flight as going back into the line again we would be even further back then #50. Ground got us right out as I guess they felt we had paid our dues. We went out as #8 and got right out. In the end we just wasted 800lbs of fuel taxiing.
My personal best though is waiting for 4 hours JUST TO PUSH!!
