Aircraft turnaround time: what happens in 45 minutes
Aircraft turnaround time explained: deboarding, cleaning, catering, fuel, bags and boarding overlap; typical narrowbody and widebody turns, and why it counts.
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Time zones, UTC and DST: the schedule's quiet minefield
Almost every serious schedule-data bug is, at bottom, a time bug. Local vs UTC, per-station offsets, and daylight-saving transitions turn a simple 'departure time' into one of the trickiest fields in the file.
Days of operation and period expansion: the date math that breaks parsers
A single SSIM flight-leg line isn't one flight — it's a rule that expands into many. Getting that expansion exactly right, across days-of-operation, frequency, and season edges, is where a lot of quiet bugs live.
Codeshares, wet leases, and operating carriers: reading who really flies
The flight number you book isn't always the airline that flies you. Here's the difference between marketing and operating carriers, codeshares, and wet/dry leases — and how it all shows up in the schedule.