Originally Posted by Globaliser

Even if there were consistent application by one airline of its policies, your working time aloft would still be as much affected by other flight time differences - different equipment, different routings, en route holds, etc. And the total time available for working is also subject to all the variations of air travel - gate delays, taxi time, queuing etc., which all also eat into the time that you have to work.

So I find it difficult to believe that your productivity is so critically dependent on that extra 5 or 10 minutes of time on board the aircraft that this is an issue worth complaining about, but I suspect that we are digressing.