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Old Dec 25, 2018 | 7:16 pm
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Originally Posted by LarryJ
For an 8:00pm departure, the flight duty period would start at 7:00pm. They'd have to be scheduled to block in by no later than 7:00am the next morning. Even at that, there'd be no margin for even a single-minute delay on the departure/taxi-out on the return flight.

Maybe that is why they don't do it anymore....
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