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Old May 4, 2009 | 12:36 pm
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Originally Posted by imgonnafly
thx so much, i'll ask my brother which he cares more about. i'm guessing booze, but we'll see.

so on the codeshare thing, i get the marketing spin. but practically, i don't see how it makes sense to leave 10 mins apart from each other. wouldn't it be more cost effective to fly one larger plane rather than 2 smaller planes (i don't know if a larger plane even exists, but i somehow doubt demand for that exact time is really so strong it makes sense to have 2 planes). or to try to take business from another airline by competing at a different time. i just don't get it, but i'm not an airplane economist, though i often wish i were
One's a 747, the other is a 777
Not normally what I consider "smaller" planes.
If the business wasn't there, the flights wouldn't be either.
That said. If he cares about speed, JAL appears to be 10 minutes shorter in each direction.
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