Originally Posted by
freightguy
I am a FNWA 320 FO and I agree with you. Way too many captains I fly with want both engines started right away after push and leave them running all the way to the gate after landing....even in busy airports like ATL, ORD, JFK and LGA. I am always prompting them to see if they want me to shut one down after landing. Some take the hint....some don't. Many act like as if the 320 is a wide-body...they believe it takes two engines to taxi that thing and are afraid of higher jet blast from single engine taxi. (I don't think a 320 has ever blown over anything bigger than a bag cart in history). We have to spread the culture of single engine taxi across the board.
Sure....I want to ask for a big fat payraise (at least restore what we lost) in the next contract. One the same hand, I want to do the best to save the company money from the aircraft operations side (without compromising safety of course).
I agree, i always ask the captain if he wants to single engine taxi. some do and some act like its against company policy.

this really should be pushed a little harder as theres no reason why we 2 engine taxi as much as we do. Obviously its necessary sometimes to keep both running but it we should single engine taxi more often.