Grant My thoughts were my observations at O'Hare. One airline operated a B737 ORD-PIT while another operated a DC-9 on the same route. Both proposed off the gate at the same time. The airline operating the DC-9 scheduled something like 18-20 minutes more time than the airline operating the B-737. That's an example of padding. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant McKenzie" <gjmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:47 AM Subject: Re: NYTimes.com Article: Memo Pad: On-Time Flights Are Up Sharply > 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 >