Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver

Yeah, I don't mean any disrespect and I understand you can make it work. It's just such a tremendous waste of fuel to do it. And from my experience on the DC-9 at TWA and the MD-88 at Delta (about 10,000 hours between the two), I see absolutely no reason for our policy on the DC-9 to be so different from the way everyone else (including Delta on the 88) operates the aircraft... especially when it causes us to waste fuel.