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Airlines don't exaggerate flight times because it would be counter-productive for them to do so.
If anything, airlines try to minimise airport turnover times because they make a lot more money by flying planes than by keeping them idle on the ground, and that means that they have to try and be as accurate as they can assessing block times because too short and they risk paying compensation and needing to reorganise, but too long and they lose money.