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Old Jul 2, 2015 | 11:22 am
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Originally Posted by kop84
Ok so then you're only 28th in line for departure! Plus then you made it to RDU in time for brunch!

Looking at JFK/RDU right now the earliest flight is at 810-1012. 2h2m. But it's listed that way for every day of the week.

So the padding not needed on Sunday morning, but that padding probably is pretty accurate for Monday morning.

I suppose the other option would be having different block times depending on the day of the week but, I think that would look even weirder.
ATL-LGA and ATL-PHL have all kinds of different block times throughout each day and across days of the week.

A smart schedule planner will absolutely pad JFK departures quite a bit. More than once I've had our captain come on during taxi and say we're 382nd in line for takeoff, but we're still scheduled as on-time because they build 30-40 mins of taxi time into the schedules at JFK.
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