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

[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.