On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:15:48 -0800, "Bob Gardner"
wrote:

That kind of makes sense. I am not a world traveler, but I have flown
into/out of Europe on SAS, Lufthansa, and British Airways, and as far as my
imperfect memory goes they used their reversers on landing. Dumb not to do
so.

I think it's universal for jetliners to use reversers on landing
regardless of where you're landing, but the requested noise abatement
practice is to leave them in idle reverse (only the cowling ducts are
opened, changes the idle thrust airflow to the sides/forward instead
of out the back) instead of 'full' reverse (for lack of a better term)
where they un-stow the reversers, and spool the engines back up to
create additional airflow (and obviously noise).