Originally Posted by
OhDoctor
Certainly they're not taking winds into account six months in advance.
But, in the context of just overall historic data, I guess it makes sense. It just seems like such an outsized difference for such a short flight. By comparison, if you extend the same difference out to a longer transcon flight, it would be like one flight booked at 5 hours and the next at 5h45.
yes, they can take winds into consideration. Now on a route that short, the changes in wind might not make that much of a difference. But it can do something.
There are seasonal wind patterns - they can’t know exactly how it’s going to be on a given day, but they have historical data that they can get good averages from.
obviosuly, a little different than RAP to DEN, but I remember being on BOM to EWR and having pretty significant time differences scheduled. Definitely one flight was scheduled over 16 hours, and in the same direction a few months earlier it was scheduled quite a while shorter - maybe like 40-60 mins shorter? So YMMV.