Originally Posted by dvs7310

Useless metric, it just means rushing to close the door and pull the jetway. WAY too many times I've seen them do that only to sit at the gate for an hour longer. This bonus needs to be tuned to overall on time performance, just just closing the door. At least with the door open until pushback was imminent, people could get up and leave on a long delay if rebooking options were available. I can think of several times in the last few years that I ended up missing an international connection because of this, being held captive on an "on-time departure" because they closed the door with a known delay. I would have happily gotten off the plane on at least 2 of those since I knew the connection was blown with the onboard announced delay timing.