Disappointing and opaque, yes. Completely unplayable is hyperbolic.
I sure wish we could simulate turnaround times without actually having to buy the planes, too.
Creating flight plans without actually having the aircraft is definitely on the roadmap, but more long- then mid-term 
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I am not sure @ralphs. Time has become my scarcest commodity. If I now need to spend twice as long on good(!) scheduling (which we all know is the most time-consuming thing in AS), then I can no longer play the game since I simply do not have that amount of time available.
Of course others will definitely see this differently, which is fair enough.
Happy to hear that @martin has this on the roadmap. Martin, I would be happy with just a list of cleaning times posted in the WIKI (and other items of DTA that are not dynamic, but rather fixed, i.e. aircraft-dependant). Database copy/paste.
That list could be used during aircraft evaluation (manually, not in the charts of the game) and then again during scheduling. The info for the chosen aircraft could be integrated into the spreadsheets I know we all use outside the game-code anyway 
BTW, I posted this in a German language topic: As an incentive for a useful and comprehensible DTA, I would happily pay three times the normal credits for a month. Revert to the new standard of 6 credits per day after a month and done.
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Those are great suggestions. I’m always interested in ways to play the game more efficiently. Time is also precious for me these days, with more work at the office and more travel in real life!
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Did you ever learn more about this important topic of turnaround times?
Unfortunately not. In 2019 I gave up on the new stuff and just played old servers, which I thoroughly enjoyed for quite a while 
But then life got in the way and I had to stop again.
But just a week ago I was thinking of AS and maybe giving it another shot. So today I set up a new airline, bought planes, updated all my spreadsheets with current data while waiting for airplane auctions to finish, started scheduling beautifully and then came across DTA again…
I thought after all this time I give a “new” world a shot… Well I just started to regret it. Maybe it’s my mistake, but DTA just threw my whole schedule out the window. But (propobably) not due to the issues we talked about 5 years ago (happy to see that cleaning is behaving more rationally), instead now my 2h maintenance window is not 2 hours?! 
I dont know…
Maybe someone can tell me what I am missing, because I have a block end at 8:55 and a new flight taking off at 10:57 (i.e. 2h and 2min) and yet the DTA tells me that 1:55h is not enough for a maintenance window. *EDIT: At first I thought it was the 7min for pushback, but then the 4min for Taxi in also have to count somewhere. But then I saw that my flight 1009 lands at 0803 and is not ready until 0855, so that means it cannot just be the pushback. I have included a full screenshot of the DTA with this edit. Can someone please tell me I am missing something? Because this makes no sense to my long-time-AS-preV6.3-conditioned brain. Screenshots attached.
Thank you
PS: Playing on Junkers
Just basing my statement on that last screenshot you shared: Your inbound flight arrives at 08:03 and all inbound turnaround activities wrap up 28 minutes later at 8:31. The turnaround activities for the outbound flight take 31 minutes in total and start at 10:26 so everything is ready for departure at 10:57.
The gap between the inbound and the outbound turnaround activities is only 1h55m, though, so not enough time to take out maintenance.