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Old Mar 15, 2010, 9:57 am
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nova08
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: PHL
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Originally Posted by cptlflyer
It won't shock me if most of these flights end-up being "meal free" -- although most are blocked at over six hours, the actual flight times won't be. I've run into the issue with GoGo where I've been on a flight that's only 1.25 hours but have been charged the 1.5+ hour fee for inflight wifi because, as they put it to me, it's "about" 1.5 hours or more.

You have to wonder how much these flights are padded for likely delays.

An example:
EWR-SAN CO1626 is blocked at 6 hr 13 min
EWR-SAN CO1726 is blocked at 5 hr 55 min

However with a Transcon product that seems to be lagging a bit, it would behove them to continue serving meals on these flights
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