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Old Dec 5, 2006 | 3:32 pm
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Originally Posted by Pickles
The flight time is about 90 minutes door-to-door, but when you subtract out the takeoff and approach, the delay in getting the video started, the fact that they cut it out too early (sometimes, sometimes they let it run until landing), the announcements in three languages, interruptions, ads before the movie, system restarts, and assorted other, the net time is down to 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Take out 2 minutes for the Forbes announcement, and you're down to 90 seconds.
lol.. so true!
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