Re:Why airlines make flights longer on purpose
by brlewis on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:33AM
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I generally avoid the word "idiotic", but it fits here. Can we flag articles for stupidity?
Article tl;dr -- Airlines used to get from airport to airport faster. Airlines used to be late a lot of the time. Airlines increased their estimated flight times in order to achieve higher on-time percentage. The reason they did this instead of just being faster is that they love using more fuel.
I'm not anywhere near the airline industry myself. The next time I see misreporting on my own company or industry I'll look back at this and remind myself it could be worse.
Re:Why airlines make flights longer on purpose
by sjg007 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:56PM
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The increased the time so that they won’t be fined for not being on time.
Re:Why airlines make flights longer on purpose
by mruts on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:31PM
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How does that reduce costs, though?
Re:Why airlines make flights longer on purpose
by Rebelgecko on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:19PM
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perhaps a minute or two less of running the engines?
To add to your list of examples. KLM, for instance, was one of the first to introduce a system that would allow certain flight data to be uploaded into the flight computer as opposed to be requiring the pilots to enter it by hand. Other than fewer errors, they touted potentially saving pilots a couple minutes of data entry as one of the chief gains of the system.