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At Thomas Cook we regularly had flights with no “buffer”.
As an example an aircraft might operate LGW-FUE-LGW at 7am, returning to Gatwick at 7pm. At 8pm it would operate LGW-DLM-LGW, returning to Gatwick at 6am, where it would then depart again at 7 to somewhere else.
Is 12 hours not rather long for LGW-FUE-LGW? Generally around 3.5-4hrs each way, giving max of 8-8.5hrs flying plus an hour for turnaround gives around 9-9.5hrs for the whole return flight.
I guess not really relevant to the question though as TCX weren't a LCC.