Actually I agree with the original poster. You want to refuse an airplane because it doesn't have an APU? God forbid you ever had to fly a DC-8, it was even installed!!! Oh my, how would you get to and from without that option.

I would hope that as a Captain you can actually have something other than a blanket policy. Each refusal needs to be based on something other than "I am the Captain". Some of the UA pilots remind me of that Geico commercial with the "Mamby Pamby Land" quote. I for one hope they change the policy and we start seeing some nice punitive actions for those that decide to refuse to BS reasons. Too many times in the past couple of years have I had trips altered or reassigned because an airplane was stolen to placate some Linus and his blanket. I am pretty sure you can probably fly safely between LAS and LAX without an APU on a VFR day, but thanks to the Jackwagon that hung us out to dry without an airplane recently because he was too scared to make such a dangerous trip!

No wonder our union can't make any progress. Our pilot group in consumed with mental midgets. Glenn is gone, move on!

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