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How does a flight from New York to Atlanta arrive an hour early???
It's not that long of a flight, how can they make up that much time in the air???
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It has to be the last leg of a longer flight. The time was made up before they arrived at the Airport in NYC.
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Taliesihne posted:
It has to be the last leg of a longer flight. The time was made up before they arrived at the Airport in NYC.
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Ok - but they still leave NY as scheduled...
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Then it was a red-eye flight on Daylight Savings Time.
Are you hiring or something? This feels oddly like a job interview...
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Well over 80% of the business flights I have taken have arrived early. Fewer than 5% have arrived more than 10 minutes late.
My suspicion is that there is a large amount of buffer built into those times in order to continue to show "good" "on time" statistics. There is also some variability with respect to landing at an airport that is not limited to the weather.
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They probably build the schedule around worst-case scenario, e.g., long tarmac waits, head winds, holding before landing clearance, waiting for a gate, etc. Catch them on a good day and your flight suddenly seems to be considerably early.
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Did you maybe switch time zones?
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How much air traffic goes into Atlanta?
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Predicted stack time in Atlanta didn't happen.
Nice jetstream can bump airspeed by over 100mph (unlikely going S on east coast).
Airline needed the plane for something else, so authorized the pilot to burn some extra fuel.
First one is the most likely. Airlines also allocate a LOT more time for flights, since they get penalized more for delays now. Which means basically every flight lands "early". It's only about 750 miles at ~550mph. So 90minutes is plenty. Anything else is just airline schedule padding.
Edit: Quick look shows 2:20 for a bunch of flights. Shaving a hour off that is easily possible.
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Anybody who talked about time zones is a doof. Get a map ffs. How do you not know Atlanta and NY are in the same time zone?
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Do you remember a strange light and did your butt hurt when you arrived?
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Anybody who talked about time zones is a doof. Get a map ffs. How do you not know Atlanta and NY are in the same time zone?
Atlanta is 10º west of NYC. A time zone is only 15º, and the damn things don't go in straight lines. If you were from some non-US location, it's a reasonable question.
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False.
There are no reasonable questions of a non-US basis.
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Daylight savings time switch
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Could have caught a southbound jet stream
way shorter taxi estimate for both take off and landing
shorter time required to wait for runway to clear to land
really conservative estimate
I would say a mixture of all 4. I've landed 45 mins early a number of times. In fact I don't think I've ever landed on time or late before. Though a flight from NYC to Atlanta is like... 2 hour and 15 mins tops? or something?
Some pilots will also have a faster cruise speed than the typical if the weather ahead of them is favorable for it
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eodoll posted:
Daylight savings time switch
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