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Old Jun 10, 2013, 12:02 pm
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alex_b
 
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Originally Posted by endrond
And I, like crenshaw, find it highly irritating when they claim impossibly-fast turn times. At one point a couple of months ago, I saw that my flight was listed as 30 minutes late. I tracked the plane (a 737) back through the system and saw it was running well over 2 hours late, and that it would require 3 consecutive <20 minute turns for my flight to depart only half an hour late. I called customer service, asking to be moved to an earlier flight, and the agent refused to acknowledge that my flight was going to be seriously delayed.
Part of the issue is there is almost no sanction for continuing to lie about this and disservice customers. I feel that one of the benefits of EU261 is that airlines have become more proactive about downline delays.
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