Originally Posted by B772
I think you will find the Green Goblin was suggesting the A380 average fuel burn per hour over a 13/14 hour sector is more than the average fuel burn per hour over a 8 hour sector. I know that a big % of any reserve/contingency uplifted is consumed enroute.
Note. I do not have the actual figures.
Someone posted very recently that on a SYD-LAX sector, that if they departed with +1,000Kg fuel they would arrive with +600Kg fuel, IE, they burnt 40% of the additional fuel just carrying it over the pacific.
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