I know that - and the pilots usually give that time. However, with the 2 AS flights, the gate to gate time was still way less than what was advertised. David > I believe that schedules are gate to gate times so the extra 25 minutes > would be taxi time. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David > MR > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 7:25 PM > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: NYTimes.com Article: Memo Pad: On-Time Flights Are Up Sharply > > > What Mark said is true, along with a possible padding of flight times. > > At least one airline is padding its flights. Yes, I only took two flights > on Alaska but both flights left the gate a few minutes early and arrived > early (OAK-SNA). Both times the pilot said the flight time was about an > hour yet the schedule showed about 1 hour 25 minutes. David R > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Greenwood" <mgreenwood@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 19:12 > Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] NYTimes.com Article: Memo Pad: On-Time Flights Are Up > Sharply > > > Could this possibly be because the skies are less crowded these days so it's > actually possible to get the flights out on time? > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill > Hough > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:34 AM > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Memo Pad: On-Time Flights Are Up Sharply > > > This article from NYTimes.com > has been sent to you by psa188@xxxxxxxxx > > > > /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ > > From the warped minds behind SUPER TROOPERS... > > Fox Searchlight Pictures is proud to present BROKEN LIZARD'S CLUB DREAD in > theaters everywhere FEBRUARY 27. 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(87.5 percent, 31 minutes); American Airlines Flight 425 > from Cleveland to O'Hare (85.2 percent, 55 minutes); US Airways Flight 1470 > from Philadelphia to San Juan, P.R. (83.9 percent, 60 minutes); and American > Flight 1415 from O'Hare to Minneapolis-St. Paul (83.3 percent, 53 minutes). > > Happy Birthday > > To the Boeing 747 > > The jetliner that helped shrink the globe, the Boeing 747, > was 35 years old yesterday. The plane was first flown in > 1969 and carried its first commercial passengers in 1970. > Since then, the Boeing Company said it had delivered 1,341 > of the super-jumbo planes, which in various versions have carried 3.6 > billion passengers. > > A Boeing spokeswoman, Leslie Nichols, said yesterday that Boeing was > studying development of a new model, the 747 Advanced, which the company > first talked about at the Paris Air Show last June. The plane, if built, > would seat as many as 400 to 500 passengers and would offer improved fuel > efficiency and noise control. The airplane would enter service toward the > end of the decade, Boeing said. > > Ms. Nichols said Boeing was currently in "product > development discussions" with potential customers for the plane, which would > probably offer be capable of carrying a few more passengers than the > approximately 400-seat capacity of the most recent model, the 747-400. > Airbus is currently marketing its super-jumbo A-380 aircraft, which can > carry 550 to 700 passengers. > > The Boeing Advanced, which has been called a stretch > version of the 747, "fills its own niche" and is not seen > as a challenge to the A-380, Ms. Nichols said. > > Growing Opposition > > To Computer Screening > > Travel > managers from major corporations are voicing growing > opposition to the process being followed for the deployment > of CAPPS II, the government's proposed new system for using computer > databases to prescreen airline passengers. > > Fully 95 percent of travel managers surveyed last week by > the Association of Corporate Travel Executives found CAPPS > II "unacceptable in its current form," the professional > group said. The shortcomings identified by travel managers included the lack > of an appeals process for removing names incorrectly placed on a list of > banned passengers, a lack of published guidelines concerning possible > arrests at the airport for offenses not related to terrorism, and inadequate > policies for providing fare refunds for passengers who miss flights as a > result of being detained without charges. > > JOE SHARKEY > > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/10/business/10memo.html?ex=1077438052&ei=1&en > =515ebdf5fc4931c7 > > > --------------------------------- > > Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New > York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & > expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! 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