Originally Posted by
Repooc17
That's not something Alaska has control over. I have some stories just for this summer on the time spent taxiing at EWR, as I fly mostly with UA, and man, it's been a tough couple of months. My AS experience has been pretty good as an east coast 75Ker.
Alaska has control over having enough gate space that if it has any sort of hiccup that it can bring your aircraft to a place where you can disembark. No IROPS issues for EWR generally on my last arrival, and we were within a few minutes of right on time. A pilot making an announcement several minutes after landing that it would be another 10 minutes, while it ended up being over an hour, with no further announcements after the initial one was in the control of Alaska.