I hope they get sued. Making people sit on the tarmac for an hour is ridiculous, let alone four hours in this case.
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Airplanes don’t have conventional air conditioning. The best they can do is pump in more hot air.
https://www.pilotmall.com/blogs/news/aircraft-air-conditioning-all-the-details-you-need-to-know
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I work for said airline as a mechanic. Unless the APU was on MEL, they should have absolutely ran the APU for air. I don’t know which aircraft type this happened on but majority if not all can run Packs on APU.
No air conditioning? Are these people fucking stupid or what?
No airplane has an air conditioner. They pump cool air into the plane when it is at the sky bridge at the gate. You can see the flexible duct hose that the plane is connected to. Or they have a mobile air conditioning unit next to the plane. The vast majority of the time the airplane is either airborne usually at an air temperature of negative 50° f or at the gate at the airport. It doesn’t make business sense to carry the weight of an air conditioner for the relatively short time. The airplane is taxi.
You are wrong. Airplanes very much do have air conditioners. The reason they pump cold air into the plane when it’s at the gate is so they don’t have to run the APU or the engines. It saves on both jet fuel and emissions.
Almost all aircrafts have air conditioning. Even the small single cessna’s have air conditioning device.
How do you think airplanes are pressurized at 35k ft and stay warm?
