Originally Posted by
fed planner
I have been seeing that during the summer, little attempt to cool the plane is made at IAH. And (off topic) the last few trips I've had sometimes multiple gate changes as well at IAH. Previous summers not so much. And today, at the end of boarding, we had to de-planne to offloaf fuel due to a plan swap. By the time we reboarded (back on-topic) it was getting fairly warm (and with the shades down).
These are just my observationns, but ground ops at IAH seems to be a bit more disorganized lately. And most the planes I'm on in IAH are hot, but that's really nothing new.
fp
Flew AUS-IAH-EWR last month - as I got to IAH, FlightTrack Pro notified me of a gate change to the north side of Terminal C; as I walked to the gate, I noticed that none of the other gates in this section were in use, but some gates had aircraft parked (presumably overnight). When we boarded the IAH-EWR flight, the aircraft was extremely hot - apparently this was the first time the aircraft was used that day, and naturally the ramp air wasn't turned on until the GA arrived.
Obviously it's not practical to keep the ramp air running all night, but you'd think Ramp Ops would start up the ramp air at a set time for each aircraft (T-2?)