A squared:
I guess I'm left scratching my head why the ability the consistently make a hi-speed turnoff 4700 feet down the runway is a bad thing. I come from a place where the runways most destinations are 6000 ft or less, and yeah, there's 2 airlines operating 737s into them. I would imagine being slowed enough to make a hi-speed turnoff by 4700 ft (78 percent of available runway) would be considered a minimum level of competency at those operators
Oops, I meant Y. The reverse high-speed. So they are slowed all the way down to 5 knots or so to make the 130 degree turn.
I make it often, but if there's a tailwind, or I''m heavy, sometimes I miss it. I have NEVER seen SW miss it. Then when they taxi back to the gate it's at 30 or 40 knots.
Am I really the only person who sees that the way they get paid has created a culture of rushing? And that this culture has directly impacted their safety record?