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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 6:18 am
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Oh completely. T5 conformance is a hard deadline you are not going to be able to talk your way out of if you fail to meet (you will try of course, but expect failure). In fact, as I've said once before, the T5 conformance is unusual in aviation as it is a hard deadline which has to be met - how often do we see stuff such as 'The gate closes 30 minutes before the flight' or 'boarding will occur 30 minutes before the flight' and know it just doesn't happen? How often do we turn up at the time stated on our BP, and there aren't even any staff at the gate?! We do get conditioned, as the travelling public, not to believe such statements as a result of our own experiences of how often the airlines themselves disregard them. And then we come up against the T5 conformance, where actually, they really do mean it
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