Originally Posted by
easyflyer83
It's when the aircraft pulls on stand and when the engines are shut down. That is your arrival.
Many of the travelling public believe that departure time is the time you take off.
It's not only the travelling public who have this misguided belief that runway time somehow equates with schedule time.
British Airways will announce in self-congratulation tones that they have been (past tense) "on time" during the taxi in at Heathrow, whereupon you sit for 20 minutes while other aircraft ahead are pushed off stand, and then wait for your own stand because nobody has yet turned up to switch the stand guidance on (for a remote stand, there are then no buses available).
Ryanair, meanwhile, who in all fairness seem never to suffer from this type of issue (how can someone who always gets their handling done by the lowest bidder still always have their marshals in place, compared to Terminal 5 ?) nevertheless always plays their ridiculous "another on time arrival" Ta-Ra-Ta-Dee out on the runway, sometimes while the thrust reversers are still deployed.