Originally Posted by
EmailKid
Interesting. Yet Southwest seems to be able to turn around their planes in fairly quick time. Generally quicker than the US legacies, though I suspect they are slow for a different reason.
It's because they don't observe brake cooling recommendations. Southwest refused brake temp monitoring options to cheat on turnaround times (true story). I've had to taxi out and wait behind an AC M8 that needed to park upwind for a cooldown.