Actually none of this would be an issue if our ground crew plugged the power in and turned on WORKING cool air when we park. That right there would save the company $20 million a year. But they'd rather cut costs than invest wisely.

On a recent trip I actually had a ground guy who hopped on board as we were getting ready to leave the cockpit, and he wanted to let us know that "his people" were really hustling to hook up ground air immediately, and since we had turned the bleed air on right away (100+ temps that day), he wanted to let us know and maybe look out the window to see if his guys were hustling the big yellow tube over before we pooked in the button.

He wasn't giving us grief, just taking pride in what his guys were doing.

That guy will be working for southwest in a couple months. Spirit doesn't know how to retain good employees. It's refreshing to see that kind of hustle every once in a while.

Spot on! This company would rather hire a new employee in any position (pilot, FA, agent, ramper, etc....) to keep their precious CASM-ex down, than keep an existing good one for a premium who want to make passengers happy and see the company succeed.... Sad. Up until a few moths ago, in their investor presentation slides, they claimed juniority as a benefit to the company.....

So are you waiting for all the passengers to deplane? Otherwise you are a terrible human being. Let's not forget your crew members in the tail...

Well if I know it's going to heat up like an oven I'm not going to kill the bleed and walk off. But sometimes yeah. If it gets up to 76 degrees by the time the last pax gets off then no big deal. If the FAs are staying in the plane I will leave them with some AC. Each situation is its own. Im just saying that Im not going to let the bleed air run for two hours on an empty plane solely for the purpose of handing it to the next guy at a the perfect temperature.

I'm not in the business of breaking limitations. If I leave the bleed goes off in case at some point the ground crew actually hooks up air. If they haven't hooked up air and it's hot out I'll wait until the plane is almost empty to leave and turn the bleed off

Good God, this is not complicated! Its about communications. Want to leave the APU and air on?... "OPS, We still have the APU and air on, please contact the ground crew and tell them NOT to hook anything up"........As a back up, put your safety vest on, go outside, talk with the lead--and tell him/her not to hook anything up...a simple 2 minute process...And if you really want to get jiggy......As you leave the gate, let the gate agent know "hey, I've contacted OPS to tell the gound crew AND told the ground crew myself not to hook up anything as the APU is running with air. Can you please tell the incoming crew this, thank you."

Don't tip the van driver or keep the airplane cool in the summer time.

I swear I work with retards.

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