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Old 21st May 2008, 11:14
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Byalphaindia

The standard FR turn round time is 25 minutes.

It is not unusual to turn the aircraft round in 17 minutes where the ground handling services are slick: the most common difficulties in turning the aircraft round are normally related to problems with the ground handling services e.g missing passengers, baggage search, security delays, non availability of GSE, airport congestion etc.

Turning a 738 round in 25 minutes is neither difficult or stressful: it just requires teamwork and everyone getting on an doing their job.

Operating in to CCF is challenging, but landing performance is not a problem. There are other airfields we all operate to which are far more challenging, in my opinion, than CCF. Salzburg is a point in case, where we blithely arrive and depart into the cul de sac valley at night; Skiathos is fairly sporty with the end of 02 overhanging the cliff; Ajaccio is another strip where you have to eye on the ball and Corfu is just a bundle of laughs, especially at night in bad weather.

We are all, regardless of which company we work for, operating large, high performance aircraft into airfields which were built to cope with turboprops and haven't been developed to keep pace with the growth of air services and equipment.

Let's not be to harsh on each other and keep some perspective here.
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