So you think that they are intentionally scheduling things badly to intentionally run flights late/late/late? Sorry, that is not what is going on. What do you know about aircraft utilization? The average airline tries to get 20hrs on average out of a widebody a/c per day. Yes, TK uses and has always used long haul aircraft for European turns in between their long haul legs, you seem to to think seemingly that the 777 that comes in from PEK at 5AM (or whenever) then flies to LHR, then back to IST and then back to PEK, where you seem to think that they "make that up" by then having that a/c seemingly try to recoup or "reset" by sitting in PEK for 6 hours or whatever before returning to IST. But that is not what happens. That 777 coming from PEK at 5AM very well might fly a London turn, or is more likely to fly a 9AM flight somewhere to the US. A totally different 777 may fly it the next night. OTOH a A350 from JFK might be scheduled to come into IST at noon, do a CDG turn, and then fly off to PEK when that happens. TK plans and schedules a contingency of let's say 90 minutes to turn the aircraft. If French ATC holds the aircraft for an hour, AND Eurocontrol an additional 30 mins, that contingency is gone and now that a/c has lost its contingency, so yes that a/c will now leave late. You seem to insist that this is 100% fully TK's fault, yet people on other European airlines are ALSO making similar observations.........So it is TK's fault that a bunch of BA or LH flights have been going late? This is effecting the whole system not just TK. Are you accusing TK of not having enough hot spares? Too many a/c doing D checks? Because if we are talking about teh current long haul fleet, this is not a current issue (there is some pressure on two of the short haul fleets, specifically a group of 737 Max's and A321 Neo's but not a huge deal (and no these have not been swapped for long haul a/c). Or let me put it another way Short/mid route utilization using long haul aircraft has NOT appreciable increased by any measure this summer, from what I can see, maybe 6-7 flights per day, however since last summer the amount of long haul aircraft operating has increaseed by something like15-18 frames, so that means nothing.