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the 25-minute turnaround is an essential part of the no-frills airline model, I don't think 20 minutes is a good idea, but 25-30 is optimal both for us & the airline
Lite, think operationally as well as commercially - a 25 minute BLOCK turnround is fine (and I agree that you're pushing at anything less than 25 really). But add in your standard taxi time in & out and (I hate to keep going on about it!) the boardroom starts looking at the balance sheet again. 15 minutes taxi out, 10 minutes taxi back (at a busy airfield) and you've just eaten up your turnround time. Add (a respectable) 25 minute BLOCK turnround and the board start asking why the aircraft aint making them money by being in the air. The timetable's now reading 35 or 45 minutes commercially; the operational bit's still plugged in to be 20 minutes block turnround. So what does the board do? They REDUCE the block and by saving (say) 5 minutes on EVERY rotation they're picking up the falldown again.
