Melburnian1
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N860CR, 'dozens of examples where an expectation of 30-60 min delay ends up being 15 minutes' sounds very inefficient.
Granted, other aircraft that given a pushback time may have all sorts of delays, such as when a passenger fails to board so luggage has to be removed from the hold (despite the trend for a higher percentage of total luggage to be carried on board). This helps to advance our subject aircraft 'in the queue' for pushback. It's also true that if only one runway was in operation when the prediction was made but a second one then becomes available, that obviously immediately boosts productivity in terms of the number of arrivals and departures handled each hour.
However, cutting a very recently predicted delay suddenly by 75 per cent (i.e. 60 minutes down to 15) suggests that the forecasting software used may not be very good.
As JohnK implies, passenger welfare does not seem to be a high consideration for the airlines.
Is it too much to expect some sort of 21st century efficiency?
Granted, other aircraft that given a pushback time may have all sorts of delays, such as when a passenger fails to board so luggage has to be removed from the hold (despite the trend for a higher percentage of total luggage to be carried on board). This helps to advance our subject aircraft 'in the queue' for pushback. It's also true that if only one runway was in operation when the prediction was made but a second one then becomes available, that obviously immediately boosts productivity in terms of the number of arrivals and departures handled each hour.
However, cutting a very recently predicted delay suddenly by 75 per cent (i.e. 60 minutes down to 15) suggests that the forecasting software used may not be very good.
As JohnK implies, passenger welfare does not seem to be a high consideration for the airlines.
Is it too much to expect some sort of 21st century efficiency?
