Nice of you to comment in such friendly tones
rubik101 
I think we'd all have to agree that before we learned of the 'new 17', here in this thread, that the 'old 25' had most definitely reached the public consciousness as some kind of accepted normalcy to be found somewhere between FRn scheduled arrival time and FRn+1 scheduled departure time on the next sector.
That said, I suppose that no great shakes causing no heightened adrenal activity and no sweaty armpits should not surprise us. It is afterall a 'full 7' (years) since someone on PPRuNe wondered about the 'lost 53' (minutes again):
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62936
May we assume that 980 flights a day do not require a cooling off period or is that pushing statistics a bit too far?