Piltdown Man; 100,000 flights; 20 mins per flight, looks to me like 2 million minutes.
£2m for 2 million minutes looks to me like £1 per minute, £60 per hour. Quite cheap for carrying 600 Kgs extra, I would have thought, but I don't now have the resources to work it out properly.
John Smith, thanks for the info, we live and learn. But how effin' pointless to carry on calling it "discretionary" when it's rostered in. As always, it sounds like trying to escape from reality by not calling a spade a spade.
LGW change runways in the evening which can take 20 minutes.
What, every evening? Is this to even out wear at each end? Well I never!
It is not unusual for an aircraft operating such a long flight (HRG-LGW) to not have much holding fuel.
Presumably a very long flight would have no holding fuel at all, while a nice short flight arrives with much more. It's certainly a fresh approach to to the calculation of fuel reserves.