Guys it sounds like "lets slag off any airline or aircraft type we can" time again.
The simple fact is we live in this wonderful forward thinking place called Oz. In other words you can't de-ice in MEL because the EPA is worried about poluting the enviroment with aircraft being de-iced.
If it were not so, someone would have bought the equipment to do the job. Take QF's case, the cost of delays would be far greater than buying a small de-icing rig.
Funny how there would be places around the world that would have the similar enviromental concerns with de-icing, but find a safe solution in overcomming it.
Last edited by RaTa; 14th Aug 2005 at 23:52.