<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SST:
I didn't say it was a problem; only that an airline touting its "95% On-Time!" figure would now be utterly incomparable to before 9/11. In fact, almost everything I've been on is "on time", due to the fact that they had built in the expected delays.
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So what's the problem?
They are advertising that their performance has been consistent with what they've promised, not that they have the fastest service.
The scheduled time of a flight is not the amount of time it takes to fly as fast as possible on a geodistic path between the two cities. It's the amount of time that they expect it to take for them to get you there. And they're doing it.
This is a
Good Thing(tm) and allows travelers to better manage schedules.