Flew into Newark from O'Hare Monday morning last week with no incident.
Flew back from Newark Thursday afternoon, and had a 45 minute delay on the tarmac.
In both cases, the plane's AC wasn't running before the bigger engines spun up and on both flights, the crew blamed it on a component in the plane that was wasn't working. Both flights were on a Boeing 757, and it's possible that it may have been the same plane, for all I know.
It’s not likely it was the same plane, but it’s not impossible.
Before engine start, electricity and air conditioning are provided by an auxiliary power unit (APU), a small jet engine that doesn’t provide thrust. If the APU is broken, maintenance can be delayed under certain conditions. In that case, cables from the jetway can provide electricity but the plane gets hot from body heat pretty quickly when passengers start boarding.
The APU is also used to start the engines so if it’s broken, they would need an external air cart to help get the engines started.
Haven't heard anything about the Teterboro Airport since Arthur Godfrey played his ukelele and sang about it during the early days of TV.
I believe the equipment and software problems can be solved relatively quickly. People problems are a different story. I can't imagine why an employer allows employees to refuse to work where they are needed. I know the story about high degree of training required of ATCs but if they are not working where the need is, they are pretty much useless. Employees who think they can refuse to relocate should be accommodated only as long as it takes to train their replacements.
It's more along the lines of "These employees decided to quit rather than have their employment moved" - which is of course their decision to make if they didn't want to uproot their families/lives.
Moving them around wouldn't have really solved the problem, though: they still needed more personnel in Long Island. And of course they ended up quitting - making the personnel issue even worse than it was prior.
Matters not. If they aren't the most effective where they are and refuse to relocate, let them quit. If they decide to quit before their replacements are trained, the agency can adjust. Reschedule flights, limit takeoffs and landings at any given location. Passengers can drive for shorter trips or take the Amtrak like Joe Biden. Business can be conducted online unless it requires hand-on. Shopping can be done closer to home. Lots of options.
That's what happened, Curtis - excepting you're forgetting we're talking about one of the busiest international airport areas and international flights can't take Amtrak or drive to the US. So while the FAA may have needed to reduce the number of flights - which perhaps they did in general - it still doesn't change that personnel are needed to staff the system and simply shuffling people around doesn't change that.
And just to say - you're the one that brought up refusing to move as if they didn't decide to quit. So obviously that fact matters to what you're trying to say.
Flew into Newark from O'Hare Monday morning last week with no incident.
Flew back from Newark Thursday afternoon, and had a 45 minute delay on the tarmac.
In both cases, the plane's AC wasn't running before the bigger engines spun up and on both flights, the crew blamed it on a component in the plane that was wasn't working. Both flights were on a Boeing 757, and it's possible that it may have been the same plane, for all I know.
It’s not likely it was the same plane, but it’s not impossible.
Before engine start, electricity and air conditioning are provided by an auxiliary power unit (APU), a small jet engine that doesn’t provide thrust. If the APU is broken, maintenance can be delayed under certain conditions. In that case, cables from the jetway can provide electricity but the plane gets hot from body heat pretty quickly when passengers start boarding.
The APU is also used to start the engines so if it’s broken, they would need an external air cart to help get the engines started.
That sounds consistent with what I remember them telling us.
Haven't heard anything about the Teterboro Airport since Arthur Godfrey played his ukelele and sang about it during the early days of TV.
I believe the equipment and software problems can be solved relatively quickly. People problems are a different story. I can't imagine why an employer allows employees to refuse to work where they are needed. I know the story about high degree of training required of ATCs but if they are not working where the need is, they are pretty much useless. Employees who think they can refuse to relocate should be accommodated only as long as it takes to train their replacements.
It's more along the lines of "These employees decided to quit rather than have their employment moved" - which is of course their decision to make if they didn't want to uproot their families/lives.
Moving them around wouldn't have really solved the problem, though: they still needed more personnel in Long Island. And of course they ended up quitting - making the personnel issue even worse than it was prior.
Matters not. If they aren't the most effective where they are and refuse to relocate, let them quit. If they decide to quit before their replacements are trained, the agency can adjust. Reschedule flights, limit takeoffs and landings at any given location. Passengers can drive for shorter trips or take the Amtrak like Joe Biden. Business can be conducted online unless it requires hand-on. Shopping can be done closer to home. Lots of options.
That's what happened, Curtis - excepting you're forgetting we're talking about one of the busiest international airport areas and international flights can't take Amtrak or drive to the US. So while the FAA may have needed to reduce the number of flights - which perhaps they did in general - it still doesn't change that personnel are needed to staff the system and simply shuffling people around doesn't change that.
And just to say - you're the one that brought up refusing to move as if they didn't decide to quit. So obviously that fact matters to what you're trying to say.