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Old Jan 18, 2012 | 8:44 am
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Originally Posted by airsurfer
A flight AMS-Bali would take 14 hours instead of 16 with stop in SIN and conserve lots of fuel and the aircraft used (772) are able to fly that distance nonstop.
That's right on the edge of the B777-200ER's envelope. I don't have my range/payload chart in front of me, but at that length the airplane wouldn't be carrying too much cargo (well actually it would be carrying lots of cargo, in the form of Jet A-1 fuel). The powers that be at the airline put the stop in there so that they could carry a decent amount of cargo to SIN in place of two extra hours of fuel.
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