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Old 30th Aug 2012, 14:24
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misd-agin
 
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Climb and descent are the biggest factor in fuel savings? Playing with the FMC and changing the climb, cruise, or descent speeds showed changing cruise speed to have the largest impact on arrival fuel.

Flight duration might be a factor. The flights I checked were 3+ hrs long.
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