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Old Sep 2, 2015, 1:38 pm
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Originally Posted by kranabargar
UA's "morning" 922 from EWR to LHR is very unreliable. This flight experiences massive delays if there are any MX or other issues. I believe the reason is that they can't land in LHR after 11:30/midnight, which essentially forces the delay to be significant.
The simple solution to this problem would be to schedule departure from EWR one hour earlier. The aircraft sits there overnight anyway, and this could provide enough time to fix it before the LHR curfew kicks in.
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