Originally Posted by
Blaine01
Are you serious. Are you immortalizing guys that don't start the APU. They are saving gas not curing cancer. Don't fool yourself, under no circumstances should you allow the cabin to be uncomfortable for the paying passengers if you can help it. How is it honorable to allow old ladies to sweat it out in the back. For what, so your executives can get a few extra million each quarter or save some tree in the amazon. I always will start the apu if there is not a working aircart.
I wasn't trying to immortalize anyone. Start the APU if you want to. My problem with the original post was the comment, "...wheres the incentive." I get so sick of hearing that from this generation. If you are only doing something for an "incentive", then don't bother. This has become such the world owes me generation.
As far as fuel burn is concerned, saving 50 pounds on one leg is not going to save the world, however if that 50 pounds is multiplied over half of all the legs on all the aircraft in the world then it starts to make a pretty big dent in money and resources. Is the one guy saving fuel going to save us on on his own; no, but you have to plant a seed to start a garden! The other thing with fuel that most don't think about, is the cost in energy that goes into obtaining, transporting and refining the oil.