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Std Deviation
You also can't board a plane to SDQ with one gate agent that doesn't speak ANY Spanish. Because you get 40 bags piled up in the forward galley. And then everything comes to a screeching stop
And those cause a flight to be 20 mins late. Pilots don’t time out, customers still make a connection.
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3 hr EDCTs. Pilots time out, people miss connections, etc.
Both cause a flight to be >14 mins late (Late in the eyes of the FAA). One is far more disruptive in terms of the operation...