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Old 4th Oct 2005, 20:47
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chopperkie
 
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Angry

I flew for AirExcel for a short while and they run the idea of:"The plane has got x amount of seats so we'll squash x amount of pax in that plane".And the tipical tourist don't come with small bags.They are huge and heavy and eventually increases average pax weight from 85kg to 95kg.Even more...
They never take in to account temperature,elevation and route flown(Thus req fuel).
After the 5H-EMK crash i have no sympathy with this.
Even a twin will NOT stay up there in such an event and will possibly create a more dangerous situation,

So what's the point of having them up there anyways?????
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