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Old Nov 24, 2014 | 7:07 am
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Originally Posted by FlyAO2
Perhaps, but DL does see to "pad" a bit more than AA or UA
Maybe DL is just more realistic. IIRC DL tends to have better on time arrival stats than AA and certainly this is true compared to UA, at least since the UA/CO merger.
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