PAL
Mysha,
You maybe right, it may not be allowed in PAL and I cannot argue with that.
And you're also right other companies are willing to accept more risk.
I wont be surprised if One day PAL will be more commercially aware and concern about the impact of Grounding an Airplane for days on outlying stations and losing revenue just because of APU problems.
But for now, as you've said that fellow did something wrong from SOPs and got away with it,lucky him.
Jc