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Jan 16, 2016 | 7:53 am

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Originally Posted by DLERT

But what about the weather enroute - there has been some nasty weather in Texas Oklahoma Arkansas and Missouri of recent requiring a flight to vector around that. Tail winds are great but you can't use them to fly thru bad weather.

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Originally Posted by Jeff767

... The flight time was longer then usual for this time of year. In addition as mentioned there are many maintenance issues that can increase fuel burn. A simple example is a generator inop. You can go but must run the APU and use its generator for the entire flight. The APU itself has a significant fuel burn and the APU inlet door creates additional drag when open.

this is a very reasonable explanation ... there were apparently no enroute or destination wx issues and the flight track was essentially direct

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