Flight Delays

[ArthurWellesley]

So, this is what my flight delay screen looks like:


Each of my aircraft, two Dash 8 Q400s and two 300Es, have 45 minute turnarounds which shows as a ~1% chance of a delay.  I can't really imagine having turnarounds much longer than this.  Could there be a cause other than that, perhaps employee discontent?

[Sigma]

It was a measly 3 minutes, man.

It's always gonna be something, and about 3 minutes is as low as it can get.  You're focusing on the fact that it's "80%" and it seems high in terms of percentages, but it's 80% of a very, very small pie.

What matters is the "Punctuality" figure that is right above what you pasted.  What is that figure?  If I were to guess based on what you pasted here, it's about 95-97%.

[ArthurWellesley]

91.5% is the punctuality.  I'm looking at the 1050 minutes worth of delays. 

[JonesyUK]

Have you left 45 min gaps between the sparate flights on the schedule?

i.e. flight XXX001/XXX002 lands back at you base at 12:00, then flight XXX003/XXX004 departs your base at 12:45

[ArthurWellesley]

I thought it built the turnaround on the opposite side into the schedule.  If that's the case, no, I've left none of that.

[Kanis]

Arthur- You have to add in the time yourself on the schedule. This is one of the features I hope sami takes care of soon! I wish that it would build in a turnaround.

Also you can get your delay time even lower. My AVG DELAY: 1 MIN with only 253 mins total for the whole week. That is just because of ATC and airport delays which makes up 58% with 616 (-1) flights last week. Even my punctuality is stable around 97%  It can be done my friend. 

[ArthurWellesley]

Arthur- You have to add in the time yourself on the schedule. This is one of the features I hope sami takes care of soon! I wish that it would build in a turnaround. 

Are you sure? I think we're both half right and half wrong:


It looks like it builds the default turnaround into the schedule (25 minutes) before it can depart again.  Therefore, instead of 45 minutes in between flights, I need to schedule an additional 20 minutes in.  Yes?

[jneil121]

That is correct Arthur. The automatic scheduler only imputs the planes default turnaround time. You have to add the remaining time yourself.

[ucfknightryan]

Arthur- You have to add in the time yourself on the schedule. This is one of the features I hope sami takes care of soon! I wish that it would build in a turnaround.

Also you can get your delay time even lower. My AVG DELAY: 1 MIN with only 253 mins total for the whole week. That is just because of ATC and airport delays which makes up 58% with 616 (-1) flights last week. Even my punctuality is stable around 97%  It can be done my friend. 

As long as you aren't based somewhere with horrible weather like I am at KDVX in Dawn.  In the winter I have over 1% cancellations from weather, and around 7% of my flights are delayed > 15 min because of weather.     I suspect that's one of the reasons Denver was empty even though I didn't join right at the beginning of the game.

//Not that I'm complaining, It's a small price to pay for a nice big airport 

[ArthurWellesley]

Thanks fellows, glad to have that cleared up.  I've redone my schedule accordingly.