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Old Jul 2, 2014, 3:10 pm
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Originally Posted by frankie14
Smaller airlines can offer more services and creature comforts then the big boys since shaving a penny here and there won't make much in the long end. But like Delta said when they bought that refinery. If they save a penny on a gallon fuel they are saving MILLIONS considering the billions of gallons of fuel they use.
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If the big airlines would save millions, the smaller ones would save hundreds of thousands.
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