Domestic airlines: bullshitting you since, well, always

[serinde]

I've flown New York to Cleveland an awful, awful lot over the past fifteen years. And so I know how long it takes--namely about 45 minutes air time.

Wherefore, then, does Continental list the flight time of all their EWR <> CLE flights as 2 hours? I can only presume they're padding estimates so they can be delay-ful and still claim on-time-ness. Feh.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

That is exactly what they're doing, yeah. They've been faking up their flight times for a few years now.

[akawil]

Flight times are counted from the time of pushback from the gate.

So in other words, the schedules are saying you'll spend at least an hour on the ground in Newark waiting to take off. Which seems accurate.

[wednesday]

When I was flying overseas a couplefew times a year, I noticed an extra 30-45 minutes was always tacked onto the end. Apparently this was the expected "get out of plane, clear customs and refile your baggage" time for the sake of making one's connection.

I don't know if that's also a factor in domestic flight times.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

You know, I really wish that the extra slush time for, say, delays, or tramping through airports looking for your luggage was routinely figured into flight schedules.

I grow weary of a flight going from 2pm to 4pm the following day that actually turns out to be from 12pm (checkin time) to 6pm the following day (an hour delay, plus an hour going taxiing, going through customs and immigration and figuring out how the hell to escape the airport).

I hate airplanes. If it were up to me, there'd be trains from Tokyo to New York.