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Old Jan 15, 2018 | 10:11 am
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Originally Posted by RatherBeInYOW
Nothing wrong with it either. Padding the flight time or allowing more turn around time amounts to the same thing for pax in the end; you aren't getting screwed by a schedule that was completely unrealistic in the first place.
I never said there was. In fact, I think it's the right approach and better than building in more turnaround time, because it makes onward connections much less likely to be disrupted. I usually have no qualms about booking pretty short connections on DL, for instance, because I know there's a high likelihood that my inbound will be early or, at least, on time.

I did blanch at a 31-minute connection that DL offered me through MSP recently though, that was cutting it just a bit too close.
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