Originally Posted by Cycle Pilot

Hmmm... that's weird. I've flown on about 20 Airbuses over the past couple months during my commutes and most of them were in the jumpseat. Only 1 crew has single engine taxied. None were doing OE (on the flights I jumpseated) and all were two engine taxiing out to the runway on long taxi times.

If that fDAL F.O. wasn't timing his second engine starts correctly, then I guess he got a sub-par F.O. It doesn't take a PhD to time your engine starts and warm ups.

MMOFB? You're kidding right? It is my business. It's my company, too. The problem is they're NOT doing their job right. Read the FOM... One of the first pages notes "economy" as one of the operational priorities. I'm just trying to figure out why the fNWA crews I've flown with are not attempting to save some gas. It's just throwing money away.

Also, I agree that we need to fix the lack of/lazy ground crews. We sat at JFK yesterday waiting for a jetway driver for 20 minutes with the APU running. Very annoying...