SimpleDXB

Would love to - would be interesting to share some [real] experiences from the last 8 years in the region at the mercy of EK/EY (and most recently QR, amongst others).

B747-437B

Didn't realise that there were so many alliances. Must be missing something...

rathin100

You question the credibility of other posters on this blog.. I question the credibility of your assertions. You don't like it, I see, when you get a taste of your own medicine
But do try and avoid abuse when challenged. It's not difficult to disagree without resorting to abuse...

I don't think you even understand what the OTD Percentage on the board that you keep referring to means. Percentages have a denominator... can you tell me what the denominator is in the percentage you quote and what the time metric is? ( hint: there are two
dimensions) Explain, and I'll gladly explain to you in return why many EK frequent flyers do not experience regular departure delays in their flying patterns.

Zol

I have been flying EK quite regularly since inception and whilst I've had the odd delay here and there, they have been pretty reliable for me. I do not count 30 minute push back delays as being that as long as I arrive within 20 minutes of the scheduled time. Its not the Shinkansen, you can't expect flights to run on the minute, there are other factors at play.

SimpleDXB

The OTD figure (%) is the percentage of flights that have pushed back within 15mins of their block departure time - this is an industry recognised standard for calculating OTD.

SimpleDXB

Etihad, Emirates and Qatar are not (yet at date) part of any alliance. What exactly are you missing? Combined with *A, OW, ST etc it is possible to be top tier across 4 airlines / alliances.

rathin100

Err.. On this board you keep talking about in the crew room that you see the info on....

Please understand that There are Two dimensions, as I said in my post. Let me explain the second dimension.

OTD. From when? Beginning of yeaR? Beginning of day? Beginning of week? Beginning of hour?

rathin100

Lol you must work for Emirates, Zol, otherwise how can you possibly look at this issue in this way!

KU104

I agree, even if there is a delay most times you make it up inflight, and arrive around 15mins from scheduled arrival time.

The posters location is in DOH, so as long as you get off a plane at DXB and
make it onto your connecting flight as promised with no snags (offloaded or no baggage arriving at the other end). I don't see any issue with what EK's one time performance is. Right?

In my experience yes, I have had many delays, and the hours I spent circling over DXB to land would probably get me through a few good movies, but over all my EK flights in 2012, I only got offloaded once (had 75min connecting time). And another time arrived at my destination with luggage that didn't make the connection. Thats not bad with the amount of flights they are running at peak hours. But, they were always on EK18 (known for delays)

Zol

I wish, then I could fly for cheap and my bank balance would have had a few more zeros

mrtdxb

I have flown on EK several hundred times since mid 2006 and only experienced 3 real delays on departure as far as I can recall. Twice when aircraft went tech and had to be replaced and once when we were delayed more than an hour. Anything less than an hour I personally don't count because I do not want my blood pressure to rise any further than it is already and delays of less than an hour on arrival do not usually end up as missed connections or great inconvenience so I say to myself "why worry about something that I cannot control and that does not mean much in the grand scheme of things anyway". I am more concerned about other aspects of EK's service than this (such as the recent disappearence of real Flex awards in F which massively limits access to award tickets in F) and am grateful for their safety record.

daisymay2

My longest delay was 5 hours MAN-DXB December due to tech problem and consequent offloading of 39 pax (it took them ages to locate their bags)
Most flights with EK I've been delayed at least an hour every time.

whimike

This seems highly improbable. You are saying most of your flights are 2x+ worse than EK's average?

If EK is at a 67% average of departure with a 20 minute delay, they are likely 80%+ within a delay up to 1 hour, just an interpolative conservative guess, probably more like 90%. But, your own experience is a less than a 50% record of a 1 hour delay?

daisymay2

Yes and getting worse. I fly the A380 frequently MAN-DXB. Notorious for delays - someone said that on this thread...........

whimike

Is the problem the aircraft arriving late into MAN?