flight time leeds to dublin

jackstaff

Was traveling with Ryanair last night and we took off 30min late The pilot said on the intercom that the flight time will be 39 min (incredible) and we landed exactly 39min😱.

Great fast traveling

coylemj

I assume you were on the 19:25 flight from Leeds-Bradford. The official Dublin airport timetable says that flight is 65 minutes duration (ETA 20:30) - yet another example of how airlines manipulate the system to improve their reliability/punctuality numbers. It's barely over 300 kms so you could easily leave 20 minutes late and arrive 'on time'.

L1011

Some of the quoted flight times to the UK appear to be unchanged since the days of them being done by Aer Lingus SD360s. LBA, MAN and LPL will always get in wildly ahead of time if they leave on-time.

jackstaff

I was indeed coylemj
Also Ryanair asked us would we like to check our 3 bags in free of charge how nice

arubex

jackstaff wrote: »

The pilot said on the intercom that the flight time will be 39 min (incredible) and we landed exactly 39min😱.

A BEA Trident once did Belfast to Heathrow in 39 mins, gate to gate. Early 1970s I think.

Modern air travel is rubbish.

FWVT

coylemj wrote: »

I assume you were on the 19:25 flight from Leeds-Bradford. The official Dublin airport timetable says that flight is 65 minutes duration (ETA 20:30) - yet another example of how airlines manipulate the system to improve their reliability/punctuality numbers. It's barely over 300 kms so you could easily leave 20 minutes late and arrive 'on time'.

Wrong. The flight is not 60 mins, the block time is. This includes startup, taxi out and then in at the other end. At somewhere like Heathrow this can be considerable

homerjay2005

FWVT wrote: »

Wrong. The flight is not 60 mins, the block time is. This includes startup, taxi out and then in at the other end. At somewhere like Heathrow this can be considerable

indeed door closure to door opening is what really matters.

a 25 minute flight normally actually takes about 45 minutes anyway all in.

Idbatterim

I was on the 8:15am flight earlier, it took exactly an hour from take off to touch down on an ATR. I flew over on Thursday evening with Ryanair and take off to landing took 35 minutes...

LoonyLovegood

The flights to the UK are wildly over estimated, although maybe with the exception of the ones leaving in the early morning rush. It's never taken me more than 40 minutes block to block on any flight to Manchester, except my beloved 6.20am one.

LXFlyer

LoonyLovegood wrote: »

The flights to the UK are wildly over estimated, although maybe with the exception of the ones leaving in the early morning rush. It's never taken me more than 40 minutes block to block on any flight to Manchester, except my beloved 6.20am one.

Is it not better to have reliable block times than end up with flights running late all day long?


Any bus, train or airline timetable will always have recovery time built into it, to allow for potential delays en route.


Otherwise you could end up with delay compounding delay.

LoonyLovegood

lxflyer wrote: »

Is it not better to have reliable block times than end up with flights running late all day long?


Any bus, train or airline timetable will always have recovery time built into it, to allow for potential delays en route.


Otherwise you could end up with delay compounding delay.

True, I hadn't thought about it like that. I just thought it was the usual thing of airlines not wanting to get in trouble.

homerjay2005

we did a late night flight to liverpool in 22 minutes, to show how short it was there was a queue for the toilets after the seat belt lights came on and only 2 people got to go before then lights came back on.

Sean9015

UK - Irl flight times are also highly variable (as a proportion of the total) depending on wind direction. Take DUB-EMA as an example. The runways are on a similar alignment, and the latitude is not too different either. I have done it in les than 30 minutes westbound with a westerly wind - straight out departure, straight in arrival, but the eastbound flight took nearly 45 due to having to take off towards Maynooth, then go beyond EMA downwind and before turning on to base leg before finals over Kegworth. A 50% variation for the same route, and that before holding etc. A timetable is a promise, and it needs to be achievable under normal circumstances. In the case of flights, it is punctuality at arrival time that is more important as arrival at the departure airport tends to be pplanned for svheduled time in any event.