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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 12:47 am
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num1bearsfan
 
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Originally Posted by ssalt
Maybe this has been posted on another forum, but has anyone noticed that the times have been lengthened quite a bit lately. I often fly DTW/MDW or MDW/CMH, and both of these used to be scheduled for either 60 or 65 minutes. Now it's about 75 minutes.
Some flights actually did become slightly longer. Southwest has started to fly a bit slower for fuel economy reasons.
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