I was on a flight from Europe to the US west coast and it was 1 hour late. The inbound crew landed 7.5 hours late and needed additional crew rest. After doing some analysis, it seems that both the inbound flight and my flight were flight planned at normal speed since the actual flight time was within a couple of minutes of schedule. Standard airline linear thinking - fly the flight plan regardless of the "day of" conditions. And while I don't have the information on why the inbound light was so late, the solution to land my outbound flight back in the US on time is simple. The flight time for the inbound flight was 11 hours, and 12 hours for my return flight. So, to have my flight land on time, the inbound and outbound (23 hours total) would each need to gain 3 minutes per hour of flight or speed up about 15 to 20 knots. Would this use extra fuel - of course, but the reduced stress and connections made would most likely make that up and more. And to add insult to injury, the flight pushed back 11 minutes after the crew was legal because the boarding process was slow. The airline should have done a business analysis of the connections and flight time to drive the landing time. Unfortunately, these are not calculations airlines make. Michael xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx R. Michael Baiada cell - (303) 521-6047 <mailto:rmbai...@greenlandings.net> rmbai...@greenlandings.net
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