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Old 23rd March 2012 | 12:04
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This information will be collected by and available to those who need it - the airline involved and Eurocontrol CFMU, for example.

An airline will typically monitor every flight duration for each individual flight number. This will enable them to create a frequency distribution which will be pretty much a normal bell-shaped curve. They can then apply this to their own in-house policy to determine scheduled flight times. For example, they may aim to publish a scheduled block time which has been achieved on 85% of occasions in the latest schedule period. In this way block times may be adjusted over time.
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