The Hidden Logistics Behind Flight Turnarounds
The Wall Street Journalยท2025-08-03 14:00
[Music] These airline staff have just 2 minutes to get this jetty attached and the doors of this plane open in order to stay on schedule. See, while the passengers flight may have just ended, for British Airways, a complex race is just beginning. One it has to perform over 300 times every single day at just one airport alone.It's the race to turn a plane around ready for the next wave of passengers and get up to 35 aircraft an hour airborne as efficiently as possible. If it isn't done correctly, it could ca ...