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Delays seem to have been "solved" by scheduling the flight to be longer: a flight that takes 90 minutes is now scheduled for 2 hours, and everyone gets to be ha
by netsharc 6y ago
Delays seem to have been "solved" by scheduling the flight to be longer: a flight that takes 90 minutes is now scheduled for 2 hours, and everyone gets to be happy that it landed early (well, except it means you have to wait for the people picking you up at the airport).
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190405-the-secret-about-delays-airlines-dont-want-you-to-know https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190405-the-secret-abo...
Hah looking at that article, I just realized why airlines even care: bigger time margin to be on-time means the airline would have to pay out less compensation claims for significant delays. (In the example above, now they can be late for 3.5 hours instead of 3 hours).