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  • Just to make this even more extreme, I've seen cases where flights with the same airline and same kind of aircraft at the same airport have different time between boarding an take-off; if for example one at a gate and one is boarding by bus. Commented Oct 22, 2012 at 3:06
  • and different delays, usually caused by different passengers forgetting to get to the gate on time because they're shopping or eating in the departure lounge, or less frequently because of technical problems, make the spread even larger. Different aircraft types also require different amounts of time to board, and then there's the availability of ground handling equipment. In one case I experienced, boarding had to be delayed half an hour because the airline had forgotten to move the aircraft from a hangar to the gate... Commented Oct 22, 2012 at 4:21
  • More info than I even needed, but that can't be a bad thing :D And speaking of buses, yes indeed, every flight through Doha needs a bus transfer because the whole place is a building site. It was absolutely terrible, I can see they had tried to make the info good, but there were plenty of places for improvement. Standing in that bus for what felt like 30 min (was probably 8 or 10) made me realize I would've happily paid extra to fly with another airline had I known about it. Lesson learned - not only check the airlines, do a checkup on the airports too. Commented Oct 22, 2012 at 14:48