Push Back for A320

[Mick B]

Paul H

Seem a little quicker to push and disconnect than the tugs.

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!

[Nigel C]

But in the case of the virgin apron they're delaying their own aircraft as well, so I'm sure the bean counters either don't know, don't care , or factor in any small delay.

[Mick B]

I wasn't just talking about Sydney Nigel