Costs
Whatever is driving this, and I strongly suspect the GCAA/WSJ article, it can't be crew hours. That might be a nice side benefit but no way is it the driving force. The time savings is just too small relative to the cost. I'lll take a guess that the average savings across all the sectors is around 10 minutes each. Those 10 minutes are costing hundreds of thousands of $$ every day. That's a bloody expensive KWI return every 5 months or so. These guys love money too much to waste it that way. No, a well connected official was named and shamed in the most widely read business publication on the planet. Not to mention the beloved 'Brand'. Band Aid is now applied until they can find something else. Hope it's not a tourniquet.