Originally Posted by
frankleggett
Thank you for the response I don't mean to cause any friction, my data came from Flightradar24 and appears to have different times compared to FlightAware. Flightradar claims these are take off times is it possible that Flightaware are the push back times?
No friction caused! But there is a difference between scheduled times and take-off/landing times.
Scheduled times of departure and arrival are for pushback from the gate and parking at the gate, not take-off and landing. Flightaware reports actual departure and actual arrival times in addition to take-off and landing times.
So what I have done is to compare like with like: scheduled departure and actual departure, and scheduled arrival and actual arrival.
Back in the second half of April, although punctuality performance wasn't the best, it wasn't actually that bad: 7 out of 14 flights were not delayed at all, and one more was only just outside the 15-minute margin.
Originally Posted by
frankleggett
I my thoughts are that the timetable isn't achievable at the moment as the delays are too frequent and too long to be discribed as occasional and understandable.
I don't think anyone would describe the last week in those terms! It has evidently been a particularly bad week for the fleet. The operation was already stretched, and so an aircraft that's broken for half a week is inevitably going to be disruptive. It also looks like G-XLEK hasn't been flying for a few days, either, which may well be to do with the water leak. I understand that BA may be trying to do more to try to get the fleet's operations back to better punctuality.