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Old Sep 15, 2014 | 3:21 am
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Short haul turnaround times

Flew ARN-LHR yesterday. Scheduled departure 21:10 but boarding only commenced at 21:00. I think we pushed around 21:25, which was pretty good going all things considered, and arrived only a couple of minutes behind schedule.

The inbound from LHR is scheduled to arrive at ARN at 20:30, and my understanding is that yesterday's inbound was a little late, but only about 5-10 minutes. As it happens the crew and ground staff did a good job yesterday, but it occurred to me that even if everything runs perfectly on time the 40 minute turnaround is pretty tight. Add in even a small delay, which is obviously common with LHR ops, and the delay might be more significant.

Is there a minimum turnaround time that BA operates? There can't be many tighter turnaround times than that for an A320. I imagine the ARN flight suffers regular delays.
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