Stretch goal: Arrive before takeoff.

Boeing is doing the low% speedrun where you try to get to your destination with the least aircraft parts.

Checks out. I always try to fly Delta when possible. Had the least amount of delays from them.

A TOS shows that if you do an out of bounds glitch you can trigger the loading zone under ground because they stretch to the bottom of the sky box.

They do. And it can end like this.

Hmm, after reading my contract carefully, there's nothing in there that explicitly says I actually have to wait for the passengers and baggage to be loaded before taking off...

In before someone posts the Aspen 20 Speedcheck copypasta

Freebird intensifys

Is doing anything fast or being happy about anything going smoothly really considered a speedrun now?

Don't get me wrong. If Summoning salt posts a two hour long video about the history and optimization of Delta Airlines flight 545 between LGA and ATL, I'm watching that shit.

Block time (airlines calculate it differently) was traditionally viewed from “block to block”, the time the wheel chocks were removed for the aircraft to move under its own power for departure to the time the wheel chocks were put back under the wheels at destination. Now it just means what the airline thinks the flight time will be for scheduling purposes.

As a passenger, this is what you see when your app tells you the flight time. It includes taxi out and taxi in.

Delay-prone flights are often over blocked, so a perfectly delay-free flight (push, taxi, takeoff, fly, land, taxi in, park) that takes say an hour and a half total might me blocked for 1:50 because historically one of the airports might be busy at that time an they know there will be a long taxi, gate holds, whatever.

So sometimes fate smiles on everyone and you get to leave early, miss whatever built in delays there might be planned, ATC gives you a couple shortcuts, a favorable wind, and bam, you’re in 30 minutes early.

So not really a speed run, just lots of luck.

No no no, that's only 52 minutes early. He left 2 minutes before the scheduled start time. Quit trying to boost your stats, man!

Ladies and gentelmen this is your pilot speaking, I've gone ahead and put the seat belt lights back on because Marlons a fucking showoff and thinks he so great. Buckle up and hold tight.

JFK to LAX, any % of passengers.

Southwest Airlines pays their pilots a bonus for every minute they block in early.

Guess who has a reputation for bugging ATC for shortcuts and taxiing really fast.

Ooooh, so that's why I saw a plane doing janky backwards jumps before being flung off into the sky.

Sometimes I like to speedrun deliveries in American Truck Simulator. Turn off fatigue (roleplay my driver as addicted to energy drinks and cocaine and pees in bottles) and drive at 105 mph (168.981 km/hr) halfway across the country.

Get there 3 days early, because faster deliveries means more Value^®^ to the shareholders.

Do they allow clipping? Or is that a different category?