I had a good chance to watch the jetBlue deicing process this morning while my flight waited 2 hours in the queue for our turn. First, I appreciate that safety takes priority over all else, never sacrifice safety for speed. But I just think the whole concept of moving those deicing vehicles around a stationary plane is insane. They seemed to spend 95% of the time maneuvering or doing nothing, only 5% actually deicing. Why can't there be a more efficient method? Roll the planes under stationary nozzles, have 20 nozzles blasting 50% of the time, instead of 3 nozzles spraying 5% of the time.

It's just so frustrating to see state-of-the-art technology bottlenecked by ancient, obsolete methods. Presumably other airlines use the same methods.