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.

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[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.