Originally Posted by
buzzpat
IMHO, if you're at a DAL base, in this case DTW, and its 94 frikkin degrees, and you pull into the gate, and the rampers TURN ON THE AIR but decide not to HOOK IT UP, its a little troubling. Happened to me twice last week. So, the air's going while the hose remains nicely coiled and doing nothing. .
On some jetways the ground AC unit supplies cool air to the jetway as well as supplying the aircraft hook-up hose. So having it turned on but not hooked up to the jet isn't quite as odd as it may seem.