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Originally Posted by Doug Taylor  However, there's honestly very little excuse for sitting on an air conditionless airplane. If the APU is broken, there's ground air. If there's no ground air, there's an air cart. If there's no air cart, get a "Lewinsky" and run the packs off of it. If there's no APU, no ground air and no "Lewinsky" available, deplane the passengers until the gate hold (if any) is a lot closer. |
Doug apparently you don't understand the USX system.
There are no jetways (mostly) and the gates that have them, with rare exceptions don't have gate air. The Philly express ramp has 3 air carts for 39 gates. And last I checked only one was working. Charlotte had, until last week 2 working aircarts for 35 gates. They now have 4 gates with installed air carts and I think 2 floaters.
CRJs are able, but not permitted to run their packs off a huffer cart so that's out.
As far as just refusing the plane? Eh, you can try but do it more than a few times and you'll end up doing a carpet dance. The problem is, if you refuse it, some other crew will just take it and that takes away pretty much any wampoom you may have as a captain.
It's a mess out there and I don't see it getting any better.