If you include this extra time on the tarmac, the average total elapsed time from gate to gate flying from Charlotte, NC to Denver, CO is 3 hours, 36 minutes.
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To put this in context, look at Netflix's corresponding numbers from its second quarter shareholder letter (.pdf). Netflix had 24.59 million U.S. subscribers at the end of the second quarter (and only about a million more everywhere else). The company began 2009 with 10 million subscribers, and for two years has shown year-over-year subscriber growth between 26 percent and 64 percent, with profits to match.