Originally Posted by
BigGuns
I doubt that they were all 3 with in 10mins of dept. I notice north a/c on the gates with APU running all the time with no one on the A/C. Mostly the Airbus fleet. Sounds like we need to move the APU Sheriff up north...
I ride in the JS of JB and UAL about twice a month. Full Airbuses and they nearly always go out SE. Also they almost always taxi to the gate SE with no APU. We taxi SE in a full MD88 at 150,000 lbs so I am sure the A320 can handle it.
FWIW, In MEM, the majority of the taxi out/ins are always going to be 2 engine taxi. Because of the shape of the terminal (alley's) we have to have both engines so as not to blast all the RJ gates with the higher thrust needed to taxi single engine. Also the taxi times are so short that often you need them fired up right away to allow for warm up time.
With that said, there are some opportunities available to cut some fuel out with fuel savings. Especially with conditioned air, gpu plugged in etc.