Originally Posted by
Harold77
The aviation industry still works in lbs.
lbs of fuel
lbs of thrust
So it is just natural when they describe cargo loads in lbs in the air industry.
So naturally you can provide examples of lbs being used to describe cargo loads rather than thrust or fuel capacity or dubious attempts to impress the public with unrealistic big numbers?
Edinburgh Airport use tonnes - look under facts and figures:
https://corporate.edinburghairport.c...-with-us/cargo
FedEx themselves use number of packages or tonnes
https://newsroom.fedex.com/newsroom/...ty-at-stansted
And of course the CAA reports are in tonnes
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