Flight leaves on time but arrives 70 minutes late?
May 24, 2018, 9:55 am
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Flight leaves on time but arrives 70 minutes late?
Slightly puzzled but mainly just passing time in the lounge, my BA app apologises profusely and tells me that 8758 is delayed, arriving into London 70 minutes after schedule, but it still has it very firmly leaving on time at 1925. Are we to fly about for an hour above London or is it just technology not playing ball?
May 24, 2018, 10:09 am
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Often, perhaps usually, when you see this on the the app, one needs to remind oneself that the doors will close on time, but the doors will open late! In other words, a typical scenario is known slot restrictions, you'll get on board somewhat close to schedule, doors will close, and then the message from the flight deck full of optimism that an earlier slot can be reached. In the meantime one waits at the gate or just away from it. When I see this pairing of timings, I nick an additional newspaper from the lounge.
May 24, 2018, 10:17 am
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Could be any number of things or combinations including slots times, routing, weather conditions etc etc. And of course, it may all change and you'll end up arriving on time 
May 24, 2018, 12:35 pm
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I had the same thing during a French ATC strike in April, on time departure but a showing a 2 hour late arrival at destination.
With everyone on board we pushed back then parked up at a remote parking spot waiting for a slot. In the end we took off around 50 minutes late.
With everyone on board we pushed back then parked up at a remote parking spot waiting for a slot. In the end we took off around 50 minutes late.
May 24, 2018, 12:49 pm
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A misty memory...
In the dim and fond past, I regularly plied the long ditched MUC-MAN route.
It always seemed to cruise inexorably slow on the late morning rotation and whilst taxying in, it was so pedestrian, you would swear rabbits were overtaking you.
Years later in The Ship Pub in Styal, I learned that if the flight arrived on stand after 1200, the crew were on overtime, hence why we often got Captain Slow in the air and Driving Miss Daisy on the ground.
In the dim and fond past, I regularly plied the long ditched MUC-MAN route.
It always seemed to cruise inexorably slow on the late morning rotation and whilst taxying in, it was so pedestrian, you would swear rabbits were overtaking you.
Years later in The Ship Pub in Styal, I learned that if the flight arrived on stand after 1200, the crew were on overtime, hence why we often got Captain Slow in the air and Driving Miss Daisy on the ground.
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May 24, 2018, 1:12 pm
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For those who have not memorized the BA schedule, this is the 19:25 service ORY-LCY. It departed ORY 25 minutes late and arrived at the gate 14 minutes late, having made up 11 minutes on the micro-hop.
Particularly on very short flights, it does not take much for a very delay to occur. Something as simple as a wind shift necessitating an approach from the other direction can result in a delayed arrival. Here, it was quite minimal.
Particularly on very short flights, it does not take much for a very delay to occur. Something as simple as a wind shift necessitating an approach from the other direction can result in a delayed arrival. Here, it was quite minimal.
May 24, 2018, 3:34 pm
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