Originally Posted by psychokilla

So I've been idly reading through this and I've got a question. The timetables therein suggest 15 min turnarounds at airports, and each journey is made up of several different connections (so London-Amsterdam-Hanover-Berlin).

It occurred to me to check if this was a peculiarity of European travel in the very early days of commercial flights, but American Airlines had the same sort of deal. This shows arrival at Buffalo at 1824, leaving at 1836. Assuming, people were getting on and off at Buffalo, how on earth is 12 minutes enough time? The image I have in my head is of people queuing on the tarmac like a bus stop, the plane lands, a few get off, and the rest get on, and the plane takes off again, but that can't be feasible.

This might belong more in the Old Timers thread and I'm hopeful some of them will spot this thread (although I might need Very Very Very Old Timers ). I'm just wondering if anyone has any insight, something obvious I've not considered.