Flew on the Dash on HB-ML the other day. Strong northerlies meant the block time was 1 hour 40 minutes.
Strong Northerlies into Melbourne mean runway 34 only and 15-20 minutes holding is common. How much of the 1 hour 40 minutes was holding? It's likely that if the Qlink had holding, then so did the DJ.
The schedule times for HB-ML in the Dash is 1 hr 25, compared with 1 hr 15 for Qantas/J*/DJ (Velocity). I'm not sure that 10 minutes is going to make that much difference.
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