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Old Dec 14, 2008 | 7:41 pm
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Originally Posted by NDFan
Oh dear - another 777 sitting in South America doing nothing for 12 +/- hours.
Seeing those two schedules together really makes it clear that it takes twice as many aircraft to do one daily frequency to South America, as it does to Europe. At least the way it is scheduled.
Would it really not work to fly one direction in the daytime?

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AA's T7 fleet has one of the lowest utilization rates in the industry, it's not a problem.
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