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Old 14th Mar 2001, 13:53
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Herod
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As a rough guide, the penalty for carrying extra fuel is about 2-4% per hour for most jets. So if you carry an extra tonne on a flight of three hours you can expect to burn an extra 120kg of that fuel. This translates, again very roughly, to the fact that there must be at least a 4% saving in the price of fuel per hour of flight for it to be worth tankering.