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Obviously we need to hold airlines to account to improve their environmental impacts, but I appreciate padding. I know I'm getting fooled, but if it makes shari
by wastedhours 8y ago
Obviously we need to hold airlines to account to improve their environmental impacts, but I appreciate padding. I know I'm getting fooled, but if it makes sharing ETAs and making peace with a journey, I'd much rather it than be delayed continually.
I think most of us can appreciate the logistical challenges keeping increasingly busy airports running on time, and whilst we need to ensure operational improvements are being made I don't think airlines are deliberately ignoring this (in an age of squeezed profits, being more efficient is the only way to go for them). Padding just makes sense.
- yiyus 8y agoExactly my feelings. I agree efficiency should be improved, and I would like that total travel time got shorter, but I can accept a small margin to help them adjust if that will give me a consistent arriving time.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoExactly; if it was about operational efficiency, then airlines would be able to reduce padding to a minimum, which in turn would allow them to have planes ready to depart much quicker, which will allow them to fly more and thus make more money. I don't get the angle that it's the airlines that don't want to improve their efficiency.
- mannykannot 8y agoWe are not even being fooled. The claim that someone is being fooled when a flight follows its published schedule is nonsense. It is also nonsense to suggest that this somehow removes incentives for airlines to be more efficient, as inefficiency has its costs. The whole article has the petulant tone of someone having a hissy fit over not getting everything he would like.