The 'last leg home' .70 climb profile makes me laugh. All you end up doing is spending twice as much time NOT at maximum true airspeed. I was curious, so I held my tongue & watched one the other day -- ETE steadily grew by 3 minutes while FOB at DEST shrank by 300# .... and ATC ended up getting so tired of our climb we got a 'reroute for your climb' for the last 4000'.
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