AKAAB
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Dude - that's the old terminology. It's a Crew Applied MEL (CA-MEL) now.a320drivr said:I can tell you at jetBlue the APU is an enroute MEL that can be deferred by the crew.
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Dude - that's the old terminology. It's a Crew Applied MEL (CA-MEL) now.a320drivr said:I can tell you at jetBlue the APU is an enroute MEL that can be deferred by the crew.
Not quite sure what your talking about Superbird. Do you do a walk around everytime you get to the gate with the same plane. That would seem to me to be labor intensive and a waste of time.Superbird said:Different POI/FSDO's approve different procedures. Kinda like how SWA crews don't do walk-arounds on quick turns, rather their 'trained' ground crews are on the look out for damage.
Superbird said:Who knows how many thousands of dollars that cost the company.
Why on earth would any company not have the option to defer once pushed from the gate?
SWAdude,
Different POI/FSDO's approve different procedures. Kinda like how SWA crews don't do walk-arounds on quick turns, rather their 'trained' ground crews are on the look out for damage.
SB
So nothing ever occurs to the outside of your aircraft that you can't tell from the cockpit? Just curious. Second guessing anothers operation is pompous and shows a real lack of class. Every airline has their own approach arrived at by the circumstances they have encountered. Perhaps the majority of other airlines do walk arounds between legs because the undetected birdstrike or tire gone flat has caused them a problem in the past - who knows? It's their right to do what makes sense to them.RJones said:Not quite sure what your talking about Superbird. Do you do a walk around everytime you get to the gate with the same plane. That would seem to me to be labor intensive and a waste of time.
I’m not sure I understand your Sinicism (sic) towards the way we operate here at SWA … rather efficient with regards to the current and past industry trends.