With flights operating over meal periods, the containers left behind from carry-on food and drinks can treble the cleaning time of the F/A's.
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Which meals would they be? None are served."
Ummm....the ones the pax buy prior to the flight, and carry onboard
The guts of being able to have quick turnarounds is how
co-operative the PASSENGERS are willing to be, wheelchair and disabled pax excluded.
The "dirty tricks" lists are undoubtedly something that other PPRuNers who work as ground staff will be able to fill us in on, stuff that delays flights eg. pax with check-in baggage who go missing at boarding time; pax who wait until the aircraft door has closed, and then demand to get off (for a variety of reasons...sick, scared, left the dog in the car); pax who have gone to sleep during the flight and won't wake up at disembarkation time; pax who go into the toilet on arrival...and stay there!!
Stuff that might mean forfeiting the price of their ticket - but a cheap form of sabotage!
Through flights are a different kettle of fish - a walk in the park to achieve a 15 minute "block in to block out", all going well.
But a turn around, where EVERYTHING has to be taken off and the return load put on in 25 minutes, would - from my experience - have about a 70% overall success rate.
As
Chimbu Chuck states, "
The real world has a way of laying waste to beancounter theories...and what's really funny is they never learn.
How true! They seem to think they can re-invent the wheel...by starting with a square one!
And several months later (about 12 usually), finally realise that what
was in practice was the result of 20 years or more of carving, shaping, and refinement, but in the learning process they have COST the company MORE due to re-scheds and the occasional cancellation!!