January 23rd, 2008, 05:34
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Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 986
|  Re: longest commercial taxi time.......
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Originally Posted by woodreau  Since I work for Mesa, we only get paid for historical average block time, and not block or better, so I elected to taxi for 2 more hours all the way to the runway (knowing I couldn't takeoff), and then asked to go back to the gate. Return to gate pays block. So got paid for 3.1 hours for the taxi. Got fuel. Got back in line, this time single engine taxied out to the runway. Took 2 hours to get to the runway this time, get to PVD 45 minutes later, got paid 40 minutes for the second 3-hour attempt to get to PVD. | Surely you can't be serious?! I'm all for making a buck but not at the expense of the pax.
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