Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
DAL88, I can tell you that when I did a flight that required an alternate farther away than CHQ or BHM from ATL we bumped pax for alternate fuel. The magic number was about 7400 lbs with 48 bags.
Just my experience with over 5K hrs in the thing. We were also using 47000 lbs for max landing.
Got it, ACL. Thanks. But the distinction I'm trying to make is the NUMBER of passengers that routinely need to be left. 1 or 2 doesn't surprise me at all. 6 does. And especially when you consider that, from what I'm reading here, the capability of the aircraft does not require 6 to be left... then it comes down to the way the aircraft is being operated by different carriers. If some of our DCI carriers are leaving people behind unnecessarily (i.e. that particular company's ops are structured in a way that causes this to happen), then I think that is a problem for Delta Air Lines and I think it needs to be fixed. After all, these are OUR passengers. Quality of product and customer service count. Our management seems to parrot this a lot, but when I see things like this I start to question whether they really mean it.