Padding is done to take into account all sorts of delays including weather, traffic and ATC. Not much an airline can do about those. Grant SYD QF At 05:43 PM 12/02/04, you 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. >David R > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David Mueller" <dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx> >To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 22:08 >Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] NYTimes.com Article: Memo Pad: On-Time Flights Are Up >Sharply > > > > Mark Greenwood wrote: > > > > > I am sure the airlines do pad to improve their OTP stats. You lucked >out > > > and the padding wasn't necessary! > > > > I don't mind the padding. I'd rather be early than late, especially if > > there's a connection involved. > > > > -- > > David Mueller / MRY > > dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx > > http://www.quanterium.com