Work Slow-Down at AA???
04-26-2008 | 05:37 AM
#82
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From: whale wrangler
EWR,
I know what you mean. When I am trying to avoid traffic I use the same logic. As long as I am moving I must be getting somewhere. No one has answered my question about what technic would have less brake wear. Very simple - more applications (riding the brakes to maintain 10 kts) vs a few applications until you get to the hold short. You have any input EWR?
I know what you mean. When I am trying to avoid traffic I use the same logic. As long as I am moving I must be getting somewhere. No one has answered my question about what technic would have less brake wear. Very simple - more applications (riding the brakes to maintain 10 kts) vs a few applications until you get to the hold short. You have any input EWR?
04-26-2008 | 05:55 AM
#83
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Two days ago I looked at the taxi ground speed. 17 knots.
We still overflew by 8 minutes.
I don't question the Captains taxi speed, unless he's reading, putting on lipstick in the rear view mirror while smoking a cigarette and talking on his/her cell phone while taxiing out/in.
Then i might say something like, "Hang up and drive" while giving him/her the finger.
We still overflew by 8 minutes.
I don't question the Captains taxi speed, unless he's reading, putting on lipstick in the rear view mirror while smoking a cigarette and talking on his/her cell phone while taxiing out/in.
Then i might say something like, "Hang up and drive" while giving him/her the finger.
10-20-2012 | 03:41 PM
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"We'll gladly stop to accomadate you"? No you wont, the capt will call the atc facility and complain someone was getting preferential service. AAL does have the slowest taxi rate in the industry and also the highest complainers rate to atc. AAL gives atc problems almost anywhere they fly with the slow taxi speeds, complaining when we let someone go past you, wanting to push when you don't have your #'s, or we'll have our #'s when we get to the end as you slow ever more and still don't have your #'s. Other airlines wonder why atc just doesn't always put AAL at the back instead of letting them be a roadblock. The reason we don't is AAL thinks they are doing nothing wrong and are the 1st to complain about their "perceived preferential teatment" which means paperwork, pulling tapes, talking to the controllers involved. There is no one outside AAL that doesn't think they are the slowest in the industry.
10-20-2012 | 03:59 PM
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Four and a half years, and that's the best you could come up with?
10-20-2012 | 07:13 PM
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Slow day Mason? 
If they had any class, they'd start the second engine and fall in behind us.
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