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Originally Posted by hollywoodcory
Moderate snow? Did you venture outside today? It’s been heavy all day.
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Why, yes. I did. When I drove to YYC from the SW from 6:30 to 7am, side streets were snow covered, Stoney Trail was relatively clear, no snow was falling and I arrived in the normal time. Heavy snow didn’t start falling until later in the morning — about an hour or so after the flight’s scheduled 8:25 departure time. The weather wasn’t great at departure time, but it hadn’t turned bad yet.
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Originally Posted by ace.yyc
That captain is full of ****.
United is too God damn cheap to pay for proper maintenance here, or to buy engine covers for the planes that RON here. They screwed themselves over and ALL FOUR Uniteds this morning had frozen engines because United is so stupid.
The airport is fining them the next time their stupidity ties up 4 of our gates all morning, so tell that captain to get stuffed, respectfully.
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He did a good job at keeping a MAX9 full of people with missed connections informed. He obviously wasn’t specific in who he was criticizing in his announcements (and he focused on apologizing, not bitching) … but I took his comments to refer to his employer’s set-up at YYC. He wasn’t criticizing the ramp agents. He was criticizing - diplomatically and cautiously- what his company has set up at YYC.
Methinks some accountant in Chicago is the problem. Not the pilot.
As for the time sitting on the deicing pad — I do a lot of winter flying, sometimes in nasty Calgary winter conditions, and today probably was the longest I’ve ever spent sitting on the pad with nothing happening. We parked, didn’t move, and no juice started spraying on the plane for a very long time. No idea what happened there, but it was definitely out of the norm.
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