Who said we can't reverse?

America used to ‘power-back’ but ended the process due to too many issues including reverser wear and the potential of putting an aircraft on it’s tail should the brakes be applied before coming to a stop.

Past times. During a long flight dely in the 90s the passengers were offered to deboard and after about 20 mins of sitting around i went up to the cockpit of one of those and the one pilot gave me a tour of the dials and switches. Wouldn't happen today anymore.

At Reno Air we didn't do powerbacks when @AmericanAir bought Reno Air I had a trip to DFW and the Crew Chief came up to the cockpit and asked, "have you ever done a powerback captain?" I said no and he said just stay off the brakes. I did and it all worked out.

Yes, American used to do this all the time. I guess they don't anymore. That was always a big NO NO at Delta.

The downside is all the dirt it stirs up and possible FOD in the engine

Lorenzo at Eastern proved you can ruin a business doing that, and no maintenance

Power back baby

American MD-80’s did this all the time at DFW.

That’s why MD80’s were super 80’s.

I remember airtran airways out of Atlanta with Boeing 717s