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Old 20th July 2006 | 12:47
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30W
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In my experience you guys fly faster than anyone else.
If in general they're flying descents on same type continually faster than other larger operators, I would suggest they're doing so less economically......

As oil prices have surged, Cost Indexes (ratio of fuel costs against direct operating costs) have changed. This has had the effect of generally lowering speeds across the industry. Not all companies either monitor, or produce accurate data often enough (particularly smaller ones), and so a disparity between operators may be apparent.

We are encouraged to operate the aircraft economically - and so this means slower speeds at the moment. If of course ATC want something tactically different on the day, then complying is no issue at all.......

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