Makes me laugh...
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At ORD...
How in hell can they advertise 27 flights leaving/taking-off at... 08:00 local time...?
Many runways, yes, but I think departure control is a little busy to handle all these planes...
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Airline schedules and timetables - excellent fiction to publish.
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Reminds me of my days with PanAm...
JFK - going to LHR...
Actual push back at 19:16...
Scheduled departure was 19:00...
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On the interphone (with the push-back crew)...
Captain, can we have an "on-time push back...?"
Ground, ok... we'll write it at 19:14
Thanks, captain, brakes set, hand signals on the left, have a good flight...!
Anything within 15 minutes of schedule was "on time" for statistics...
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Happy contrails