Originally Posted by NuGuy

Heyas,
Mostly DTW runs pretty well. About %10 of the time you'll need to call for a park job.
I disagree and have been in and out a good bit.
Outbounds, OTOH, run very smooth. They've been very good about the paperwork issue, and no one has said "boo" about waiting for the numbers.
I disagree again as we continually have to request power/air/lav dumps. The lavs being the hardest to get!

FWIW, MSP is about the same. Expect to wait on game day when the Vikings, Packers, Timberwolves or whoever else is playing.
They are about on par with ATL...not great but not horrible.
As for the APU thing, yea, you guys have a point. There is some past policy issues with this, but suffice to say, the rampers still take a running APU as a "don't plug us in" signal. Even calling into ops for a plug in results in a, shall we say, a tepid response.
The ramper I talked to said that exact thing. If APU is running it means don't need to hook anything up. Also said the 88 was easy to work b/c of the shorter hose as opposed to the extra section needed for the -9. Point blank said they don't like hooking up the -9 b/c of this.

Plugging in the AC is even worse, and I notice that compliance with this is pretty poor, even at DAL stations. Quite frankly, APU Sheriff or not, I'm not going to let my Pax bake. It takes a LONG time to cool down a DC-9 on the best of days, and if you don't have external A/C and you wait 5 minutes before push to fire up the APU, then you'll cook until you start down at your destination.
That's true for all fleets I'm sure. I'm also sure most everyone does there best to keep it cool plugged in or not.
Flew a trip with more DAL airplanes than NW last time around. Still amused by the fDAL response to the 753, though. We were coming down the jetway to meet the outbound crew, and they were "man, this is the long one, here is the gou...oh, wait, you guys are fNW...never mind". All done with smiles and good nature, though.
Nu

Originally Posted by sinca3

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