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Old Jun 17, 2022, 10:51 pm
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ft101
 
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Originally Posted by WeekendTraveler
At the departure airport, when the airplane door closed 10 minutes after the scheduled departure time, it was a small airport and there were no other planes arriving or leaving then. Yet my plane sat there at the gate for a while more before it was pushed back from the gate. Why?
Small airport with fewer resources so the ground crew could have moved to their next scheduled task. Coming back to deal with your flight then makes every subsequent flight delayed. Better to have one flight delayed for longer than several flights for shorter periods?
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