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Old Apr 22, 2014 | 2:58 pm
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sfoboy85
 
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yep

Cloudship is pretty much spot on and covers almost all aspects.

Just so you have some comparison:
When I was at the UA Premier tour operations in Vegas we were told that the fuel cost itself is approximately $30,000 for a LAS-NYC flight...
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