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The Transportation Department is investigating whether airlines deliberately underestimate flight times in their published schedules, and whether they are complying with requirements to inform passengers about a particular flight’s on-time performance. Our question this week: Do you have any personal experience with a particular flight that seems always to arrive later than its scheduled arrival time, and were you aware from the airline’s schedule information or reservations desk that this was the case? Do you think airlines deliberately underestimate flight times?
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RE: Late arrivals and airline scheduling
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AnonymousMay 1 2007, 7:28 PM EDT
"The Transportation Department is investigating whether airlines deliberately underestimate flight times in their published schedules, and whether they are complying with requirements to inform passengers about a particular flight’s on-time performance. Our question this week: Do you have any personal experience with a particular flight that seems always to arrive later than its scheduled arrival time, and were you aware from the airline’s schedule information or reservations desk that this was the case? Do you think airlines deliberately underestimate flight times?" Just the opposite is my experience. The window of gate departure to arrival is always less than the in-air time. I think this is to help minimize "late" arrivals. Have never experienced a posted flight time less than actual.
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