Originally Posted by
shfo
Just to play devil's advocate, I've sat on runway 13L/31R at JFK for more than 3 hours with both engines shut down. They were using the 22s for arrivals and departures and used the 31s/13s as taxiways. There were storms over all the departure fixes so not many flights were getting out.
AA doesn't shut engines down on the ground... the run em from gate to gate as the aircraft was designed to do, and taxi at a brisk walk...