Phileas Fogg: However, one could be one of those that wants to do his best to mess everybody around, stand outside the crew room until exactly STD -45 minutes, then for the next 4 sectors miss all the ATC & airport slots, delay up to 700 passengers in the process, they that pay your mortgage etc, and then arrive home 3 hours later than you should have done, all for the sake of 15 minutes, well enough said!
It isn't for the sake of 15 mins though is it? It is for the sake of 15mins every working day of your life - that adds up.
Also add the fact that there are limits on consecutive earlies for safety reasons and these can be 'broken' by falsely applying a 45 min report when in fact it is 1hr.
So when an a/c piles in due to the crew being over fatigued I'm sure that those 700 pax who pay your mortgage (well their families anyway) will be fine with it because they weren't occasionally 15 mins late for a period of a few weeks till the airline got the message and rescheduled the flights.
