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Old May 31, 2005 | 8:20 pm
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Interesting stuff.

Originally Posted by ozstamps
But even using these pretty rough figurings, - it comes out to what - about $US200 a pax on a full 747 for fuel and we now pay for QUARTER of it?
Don't you think that the fare includes a good chunk of the fuel cost? After all, that's their second highest expense (or so I've heard).
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