David MR wrote: > Have to disagree. If the schedule says the aircraft leaves the gate at > 0805, I expect it to leave at 0805. If, because of light traffic, good > tailwinds, or whatever, the aircraft arrives early then that's good. If the > airline really had the passenger in mind when scheduling the flight, then it > would not pad the time and the pax could arrive at the airport that much > later. I was talking about padding the arrival time... i.e., saying it will arrive at 9:00 when it's really more likely to arrive at 8:30. It's nice when flights leave when they say they will, but what really matters is when they arrive. In 1997 I flew LAX-JFK-FRA-VIE on Delta and Austrian. The departure from JFK was in the middle of JFK's big departure rush to Europe, so we taxied around the airport for 45 minutes before takeoff. Yet we arrived in FRA on time. Which was good, so I didn't miss my connection to VIE. -- David Mueller / MRY dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx http://www.quanterium.com