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Old Sep 29, 2015 | 11:29 am
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Originally Posted by kevanyalowitz
People really tend to over estimate the number of delays they experience. If you are based on Boston, how is it possible to experience delays on 70% of your United flights? Perhaps he is only flying RJs to CLE? Other than that, it just does not add up.
I agree, but in view of what last winter was like in Boston it could be that his on-time experience was pretty bad.

Anyway, the overall thrust of the article is pretty good even though it's superficial. And the comments on the article match a lot of what we see here on FT.
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