US Airways Express CRJ-200 taxi and engine start

[peakster753]

I've read that in the interest of saving fuel, several airlines have taxied on one engine

[BobWeaver112]

@peakster753 Can you blame them?

[dipu94321]

are the planes good for a night flight?i am having a flight at 2130.

[BobWeaver112]

@dipu94321 I'm not sure how one aircraft would be better than another for night flying, so I don't know how I can answer that.

[dipu94321]

see,a size of a plane matters.where we had to go,there were heavy crosswinds at night

[BobWeaver112]

@dipu94321 An airline won't schedule a different type of aircraft simply because there are crosswinds at your destination airport.

[Jetbluerox09]

what seat is this?

[BobWeaver112]

9F.

[pete5668]

hopefully they start the engines before they taxi :)

[BobWeaver112]

Both of my US Airways Express flights taxied on one engine for around half of the taxi to the runway.

[hpflyboi]

Why? You don't need both of them to taxi out on. We usually taxi out on one when there is going to be a delayed or extended taxi time.

[pete5668]

i know that, i meant before takeoff.

[CivSi02]

@hpflyboi They taxi on only one engine to conserve fuel :)

[AmericanGi370]

They start the engines as they are pushed back from the gate.

[ajcrw]

sometimes just one