Originally Posted by
Cycle Pilot
It sucks that guy was fired especially if what he said he could do was true. Maybe more to the story? Don't worry, though... that money he saved for NWA was probably burned off in fuel costs due to crews not single engine taxiing and running APU's all day long. I've jumpseated probably 10 DAL-N flights over the past couple months and only one crew has used single engine taxi. I'm seeing more APU's shutdown at the gate, though, since that APU memo came out so that's good.
I'm trying man.
It's getting better. Yesterday I got a SE Taxi to the runway on 2 of 3 legs. The 1st one we were just too heavy, & in SLC. Wasn't going to work. Also, got a SE taxi in on 2 of the 3 legs. Only reason we couldn't on the 3rd one was because it was not an authorized SE taxi gate. I don't know where you commute from but MSP, DTW, & LGA have quite a few gates which prohibit SE taxi.