Paul H
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Seem a little quicker to push and disconnect than the tugs.
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My observations, mainly relating to Virgin aircraft - they might be marginally quicker for the aircraft concerned, but once they start taxiing under their own power, there is 60 secs or so until the engineer can walk over to the tractor to retrieve it and drive it back to the bay (as I understand they can't be controlled directionally with the remote).
The end result is that they block the taxiway for the following competitors aircraft..but the Virgin bean counters wouldn't care about that!