You mean more time spend just flying around doing nothing. We're talking about total time online.
listen:
more time online = more sorties flown = more opportunity to get kills = probably more kills = more points.
k/death, k/time, k/sortie, hit%, etc are NOT EFFECTED. All you get for flying longer is more points on your total score.
But that total score seems to make a huge difference in rank and I really dont see a good reason why it should.
