how much time to do planes stay on the ground?

iirc there are not enough spaces at all the civilian airports in the world for all the planes to land at once :D
 
I would imagine that they do a certain amount of flights and then are grounded for a while for servicing. So there must be a pool of planes waiting to get back on the runways and a pool of planes in the air.
You'd have to know the turn around between servicing and flight length.

None of this is actually based on fact of course.
 
It depends on the airline, aircraft, airport, route, crew, maintenance schedule etc....

Airlines try to keep planes in the air because they (usually) make money while flying. Planes on the ground cost money.
 
My girlfriend works for (last day is tomorrow though) BA CityFlyer, when she lands she is usually back in the air in 30 minutes or so. They are quite small planes though, they fly Embraer E-170s and Embraer E-190s.
 
I thin easyjet have a target of a 30 min turn around on their aircraft. But could be upto several hours for some, I know when we went to the states and on the return leg the 747 was at the gate a good two hours before our departure.

Kimbie
 
Depends. We can turn B777 in hour and a half providing theres nowt wrong with it. Aircraft arrives, pax are decantered, fueller turns up and sticks the coal in, caterers empty the galleys then refill 'em, cleaners go on, get rid of rubbish then dress the airplane. Crew (flight and cabin) turn up 60mins before departure, pax go on 30 mins before departure, pushback crew turn up 20 mins ish before departure, fueller should have finished hopefully and finished about 15 mins before deoarture. All the while from arrival, we, the engineers have to do all our stuff hopefully at the same time as everyone else right up until the plane pushes back from the pier.
Smaller airplanes obviously don't take so long as theres less of them as it were and don't need to be recatered, cleaned or refuelled.:)
 
I believe 30 minutes is pretty close to minimum turnaround time covering smaller planes like the 737 and also the smaller turboprop planes.


also one of the reasons mathematicians try to sort out the bottleneck of passenger boarding planes...more under the link below
http://menkes76.com/projects/boarding/boarding.htm
 
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