Add up what it's costing your airline to sit around and wait
I have often wondered the same thing. Heard a B767 crew recently tell ATC that they burn 600kg per side per hour at idle on the ground. He had been waiting for 40 mins by the time he got to the gate.
What about the A320's, B737's and A330's that regularly wait for a vacant bay. How much do they burn sitting at idle with a plane load of frustrated pax?
What is the P.A to the pax like?
"Ladies and gents, Captain 4 bars again. Unfortunately despite our best efforts to defy gravity and hurtle through the stratosphere at 80% the speed of sound, we are now stuck here in this tube because we have nowhere to park! Apparently our arrival is a surprise - AGAIN. So stay belted in, don't go to the loo, don' t move. We should have a gate within the hour - on average!!!!"
