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Old 25th Jan 2013, 00:48
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USMCProbe
 
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I found it just the opposite. Like I said, maybe it is just because the airports are so big and spread out, even though most have only 1 or 2 runways. If they have 1 runway they usually have 1 very hard working supertug pushing back all the airplanes on the airport, driving like a Chinese taxi driver between aircraft. But he gets the job done incredibly quickly and efficiently. You know it is your turn to push when the chain smoking tug driver comes racing up the front of your aircraft. Brilliantly efficient IMHO.

The opposite end of the sprectrum for me is Heathrow. I haven't been there since O4, but I used to go there all the time. They could take the ground support equipment and personnel, spread them across 3 other London Heathrows, and still have extra stuff. There was so much equipment on the ground you parked the aircraft not between yellow lines, but between ground support equipment. ORD isn't much better.
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