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Old Nov 17, 2023 | 11:32 am
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Originally Posted by physioprof
OK, and once you push back, the notification changes to arrival time.
And this one also seems to be wrong. My flight last night was scheduled to land at 9:15pm, with estimated arrival showing as 9:02pm pretty much from the moment we took off. At 8:46pm, as we had already started the decent, the notification was showing "Arrival in 58 minutes" which would mean a 9:44pm arrival which matched neither the scheduled arrival time nor the estimated arrival time (my phone was connected to Wifi, including internet access).

Some examples of the notification. 8:25am flight on Monday. Boarding was stated on the app/boarding pass as 7:45am.


So that's working towards an 8:04am boarding time - which doesn't correspond to anything (not even the 'boarding ends' time, although it's closer to that than anything).

A minute before the stated boarding time (and maybe 2-3 minutes before they actually started boarding) it was :


During boarding, maybe a minute before they closed the door (and 7 minutes before scheduled departure), it was showing :


I could easily see someone missing a flight due to this, either because they didn't leave home early enough based on the boarding time, or because they were in a lounge/bar on the other side of the airport and presuming the countdown was correct!
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