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Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius  Maybe what they can do to relieve stress is have flights leaving/arriving out of hubs at off peak times as well as pushes.
I see traffic here in PHX only leave in pushes. I'd think having off peak and peak arrivals/departures might open up the system more then only having peak arrival & departures.
This from an atc novice so take at face value! |
So how would that work?
The whole idea of the hub is that a bank of flights comes in from all over the place - people scurry from plane to plane in 30 minutes and then a bank of flights leaves to all those places. That's what lets people travel from Burlington, VT to Jacksonville, NC with either the same ease or the same frustration (depending on your point of view) as travelling from Boston to Atlanta.
If your planes arrive from all over the place on some inter-leaved schedule with the planes leaving inter-leaved between, people arriving from Burlington might find the next flight to Jacksonville leaves in 4 hours - and leaving aside the marketing aspects of that, having those people clutter up the airport is just untidy.
Never forget (as many airlines seem to do) that this is a service industry. Our priority is NOT the operation of aircraft, our priority is the transport of people.