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Old May 14, 2012 | 8:12 pm
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Originally Posted by travel.flier
So 45 minute boarding time for a 752 (which used to take well less than 30), and still dropping to worst in on time's. Is anyone really surprised? I love how a flight now SFO to lax on a 752 is 2 hours on the airplane instead of 1. add in a typical delay and it's 2.5 hours. plus 1 hr for security. 1 hour for parking and shuttle. that's 4.5 hours. add 30 mins to pick up rental car at lax is 5 hours. oh wait, you can drive in that amount of time.
I was on a 752 today. Showed up at the gate at t-30...all boarding groups had already been called and there was no line at the BP scanner. And we sat on the plane twiddling our thumbs for 20 minutes before they closed the door.
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