AC under-blocks its flights? Wow, because for years people have been shouting me down when I tried to explain that...
Originally Posted by
foothills county flier
I would, longer blockings causes a lot more issues with connections.
How so? I don't think I've ever missed a connection when the first flight was early. Unless your view of "issues" is sitting around an airport waiting as opposed to missing them.
One point that wasn't made in the article is that DL's high OTP has led it to shorten MCTs in many cases (e.g. at MSP, it's 30 minutes for D-D, and only 35 for D-I). DL obviously has vastly better OTP than AC, but with AC's generally longer MCTs, I wonder what the rate of misconnects is like - it doesn't take much of a delay to blow a 35-minute connection to an international flight.