Honestly I have no clue, I just know the ice was making it take twice as long.
Ice is a bitch. In my pax airport days.... We had an ice storm overnight.. threw our whole pax operation upside down. I was flying out to Myrtle Beach... I even stepped in on my day off and started helping the agents at the gate. Every plane was late out by hours, we had our two trucks, the FedEx trucks, and the airport FBO truck working on our planes. Each plane was covered in about three inches of ice. from nose to tail. We first started with getting any door open so that we could fire up the APU or attach the ground heat and try to work the problem from both sides of the ice.
We went thru a few thousand gallons of fluid for 4 planes and we were mixing it at the highest legal ratio of water/glycol to save fluid. We were down to the bottom of our tank when we were done. We were refilled the next day because every pax airport in the state ordered more type 1 so the tankers were headed this way the day before the ice storm.
Hell, if it wasn't for FedEx, Memphis international would be
out of luck too. Fedex snow plows take care of all the runways. Memphis city and airport snow plows are a joke.
Well, once Delta dehubbed MEM, I bet the airport authority scaled back on their winter ops and Express stepped up as being the largest operator out of there..
Driving on the ramp was hysterical. We had tugs pushing other tugs just to get freight to the gate.
Do you guys not have chains you could have tossed on the tugs and/or sand to lay down? I know salt is forbidden but we always sanded the friend out of our ramps.
You as well. We'll do our part as soon as you do what you can. I'm just thankful this didn't happen a month prior.