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[airline55]

Hi, I waas thinking, a gate can be operational twenty-four hours a day, yet you only get five slots per gate. With this formula, each plane takes 4.8 hours to turn!.

So this got me thinking, why not have a time bank (like available flight hours for planes) for each gate? Ex. you have one gate. you have twenty-four hours each day in which to schedule flights. You want to fly a 737 twice daily out of that gate. So, say a 737 takes 40 min. to turn. Add 20 min. to that to allow time for moving planes, and you now have twenty-three hours left to schedule flights.

it would work like this:

1440 minutes available without flights. (24 hours)
- 40 minutes to turn a 737
- 20 minutes to switch planes at that gate
1380 minutes to schedule other planes

[Coeurlion]

makes sense

[ziliu]

Agree. Only, if a 737 takes 40 minutes to turn, and you fly twice daily, wouldn't you need 80 minutes at gate and 40 minutes switching time?

I believe it was something like this Miller meant when he talked about a (future) feature that larger planes should use more slots.

[airline55]

yeah.

[flyhegs]

I think a better idea would be buying slots from the airports directly . Only if u need very much slots u buy gates , but then the gates would have more then 5 slots and would be much more expensive . how about this ?