The sector
BHM – TFS has a great circle (i.e. the most direct) distance of 1849 statute miles. Our renowned tree hugging heroes at the BBC have cited that going down a Tango route adds an extra 100 miles therein making the sector be 1949 statute miles. That represents a 5.4% increase in the overall total distance (with the percentages for flights from Manchester and Newcastle being 5.3% and 4.9% respectively).
So, using the same analogy wrt driving my car… My nearest petrol station is 4 miles away. Adding on an extra 5.4% to that journey would make it 4.22 miles, i.e. just under an extra 400 hundred yards.
Uhm, so would I drive an extra 400 hundred yards to fill up my car if the petrol was 1p / liter cheaper at the further station?... You betcha!
Therein how about a headline of:
“Shock horror! Drivers of vehicles found to be driving extra distance in dodge to fill up with cheaper fuel!!!”
Wrt Ms '
Mari Martiskainen, a climate expert at the University of Sussex'. That’s most likely your
Ex as in ‘
a has been’ (though in this case probably a ‘
never was’) and
spurt as in '
can’t handle pressure' at University of Sussex... .. read 'academia' at it worst... an establishment famed for having nothing good ever come out of it... and I should know as I used to go there myself!
Wrt 150 car journeys between London & Brighton (wherein I assume they mean single sector journeys not a route pair?).
London to Brighton = 58 miles x 150 journeys = 8700 miles.
1.6 Tonnes of JetA1 with a specific gravity of 1.25 = 2000 litre of fuel.
Which means their vehicle is getting 19.8 mpg.. .which is piss poor imho.. therein it must be a RangeRover or some’at?!... and I’ll guarantee it won’t get that mpg with all the seats full at 500mph!
... and don’t even mention ‘
Tankering’!
Nb. Edited due typo.