Originally Posted by
Bulldog319
They have decided that it is worth the money to have a ramp agent spend his time hooking up power. while sitting at the gate waiting for power it takes 8 minutes of SE burn time to equal our per start cost on the APU.
I absolutely refuse to sit at a gate with an engine running for any period of time as long as I have an operable APU. Ain’t gonna happen. It is not safe, especially given the egregious lack of experience that we have working below wing. I don’t care how much it costs to start the thing — it’s simply not worth someone’s life.