Why Airlines Make Flights Longer on Purpose

Padding is the extra time airlines allow themselves to fly from A to B. Because these flights were consistently late, airlines have now baked delays experienced for decades into their schedules instead of improving operations.

via getpocket.com

This is just what the idiot socialists at the BBC would think. Yes, the airlines looked at 20 years or whatever of actually running an airline service between NYC and London and said you know we’ve never managed to make this trip in less than X hours so let’s just say that’s actually how long it takes us because that’s the question in some government form they’re filling out. In any event, this link is just so you can see the outrage that it is but actually entirely to be expected that the state, oh hell, you know the rest.