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Old Sep 21, 2006 | 12:58 pm
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foxnine
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Seems like this may be due to a few different factors:

*Lack of gate space in Denver

*Connecting "banks"

*Crew rest - on the TPA turn, it looks like the same crew probably brings the aircraft back to Denver

*"Head start" - this refers to the first flights of the day leaving on time - the BWI and PHL redeye flights from DEN often hold for late connecting flights inbound from the west coast; while this usually doesn't result in much of a delay, if the turn were scheduled for 40 minutes in BWI, it could potentially throw the schedule off the next day as well.
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