Originally Posted by
gloopy
Just wait until they start using wheel spin up for block time. That's another 5-15 minutes per flight per day of lost block time merely by using a lawyer wordsmith trick. Who knows, maybe they'll even double up with tow ins at every gate too.
I'm not sure how you get 5-15 minutes per flight here. We're talking about the difference between when we've historically turned the beacon on and when the airplane actually begins to push back, right? I've rarely known that to be more than 1-2 minutes, absent a ramp delay of some sort. Even then, we'll only be losing time if the flight goes over scheduled block, right?
Regarding tow-ins, that counts as flight time as surely as pushback does.