Originally Posted by
JetJock16
He's getting the entire "no pay for deice" from Rick.
UAL is cracking down on out times as a way to reduce cost. Now they want to deice at the gate (meaning you don’t drop the brake until cleared for push) so they don't have the pay more in block cost and on-time bonuses. At outstations they don’t want us dropping the brake until cleared to taxi. This means that your Pre-Start, Engine Start and Pre-Taxi checklist are all done Pro Bono (although Pro Bono denotes “for the good of the public” and in this case it’s “for the good of UAL”). United actually has employees in the ramp towers tracking the out times and penalizing airlines for not adhering.
Bunch of freaking Nazi’s.
I can't really believe this, if it were true UAL's D-0 would go to 1% and they would not want that either, plus you have to drop the brake to be pulled into the tug, and how would that conversation go with the chief pilot "um you guys blocked out before you pushed" Pilot: "Um yeah, we did."