Plane Talk: Why the summer schedules seem to penalise passengers on longer hops
Overnight flights are also a strain for the extremely hardworking cabin crew and pilots. And with even more intense air-traffic control and weather delays forecast for this summer, it helps to have five or six hours’ buffer to catch up if staff shortage at Karlsruhe control centre or storms over Biscay cause delays to build.
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