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Old 10th Jun 2004, 14:11
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spacedaddy
 
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Talk about selling a pair of shoes to a fish - RVSM for Africa? This is being driven by IATA being pushed by the European carriers
(maybe a bit of help from SAA). The guise is better fuel efficiency and a mandate from ICAO (which doesn't really give a s#!t) but the real reason is probably to kill competition due to the average $300,000 to retrofit older aircraft. By the way do 20 jumbos saving 1 or 2% outweigh 300 aircraft flying at 280 and below?
Fact: The U.S has more traffic in 1 day than all of Africa does in 1 month and to date they don't have RVSM. If they pull this off they gotta broker the sale of the White House for me.
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