Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
On the 88 fleet they have our arrival fuel down to around 4000lbs now. I even saw one the other day at 3900. That's getting a little to low for my comfort zone. Not sure what is going on with the North fleet, but we don't carry much extra on the -88. Do the North guys do single engine taxi's and shut the APU off yet? Probably save more gas doing that than running on fumes at your destination.
Good to her you guys are running efficient. Just my point. You see APUs running. Needs to be addressed and they need to be shut down. I see us carrying average 8-10 thousand lbs more fuel than needed, that needs to be addressed and maybe it is in the works. We typically were getting to destination with 30,000 lbs on the 744. That was plenty to get to alternate and never really had a problem in the 20 years of flying them. Landing with 40,000 is nice but what did it cost to carry the extra 10,000. No one wants to be on fumes!
