this is true...airline portrays it very differentley from being a real dispatcher. making sure that A/C turns around ontime can be very difficult, especially as most turmaround times are around 25 mins, thats 25 mins to get pax offloaded, get refulled, catering, cleaning of A/C get pax onboard, and make sure specials are on board on time.. ok so alot of this is due to the groundstaff, such as offloading pax, loading pax onboard.
However it is a ver enjoyable job, and i love every minute of it.....