Originally Posted by
old,not bold
In an idle moment, I wasted some of my remaining life looking up numbers on t'interweb.
It turns out that an A320 type of aircraft, operating, say, LHR-MUC and return, would burn about 5 Tonnes each way. So if the return fuel burn is added to the outbound aircraft weight (guessed at 77T), it would be adding about 6.5% (these are ROUGH FIGURES!).
Just an observation, and not my aisle so to speak, but 5 tonnes
burn sounds very excessive for a modern short haul type on that sort of sector...any A320 experts care to comment?