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Oct 24, 2007 | 10:45 am

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Originally Posted by sbm12

Airtime should be 1:20-1:45. The rest of the time is just padding in the schedule to allow them to claim that the flights are on time, even when they are running late.

So that's how an airline can improve its on time statistics with the DOT! What a novel idea.

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