crewdawg

Agreed. I was keying in more on the "leaving later." I think we can all agree that many times, even leaving 15 late, we will still land on time or early. IMHO, the rush to always get the plane out on time, has created some bad juju. Last week we had pax boarding a dirty jet because the red coat/gate agents were too scared of taking a delay...even after the Captain had told them to hold off boarding (while the cleaners would not answer our calls). Nothing like first class pax walking onto a 330 while the FAs are scrambling to do the cleaners jobs... Even though the jet had been sitting for 5+ hours and supposedly had been cleaned, coach was a complete disaster. But but gosh, those agents didn't get a delay as we pushed on time, then landed 35 minutes early...