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Location: Alerts for 4/30/07
Discussion: Late arrivals and airline scheduling
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 jimglab |
Late arrivals and airline scheduling
Apr 30 2007, 9:43 AM 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? Do you find this valuable? |
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Anonymous |
RE: Late arrivals and airline scheduling
Apr 30 2007, 2:25 PM EDT Actually, the schedules are padded already. The airline's padded their schedules concurrently when they were required by policy to report on-time performance. BTW, weather delays are not recorded for on-time perfromance and the airlines use this to their advantage very loosely. So when one factors this in, today's operations and resulting performances are awful. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Anonymous |
RE: Late arrivals and airline scheduling
May 1 2007, 11:34 AM EDT I personally have experienced airlines posting an incorrect status. While I was at the gate waiting to board a plane and it was already late, the board claims that the flight was on time. Another time I was waiting to pick up a passenger and they were still in the air but the flight was late but the board claims that it was on time. This illustrates that what the airlines reports is probably a much rosier picture than reality. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Anonymous |
RE: Late arrivals and airline scheduling
May 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. Do you find this valuable? |
