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Old Dec 17, 2005 | 4:02 am
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I *believe* the only ops seriously affected are the LHR-Asia ultra long hauls. As I understand it the UA ops out of LHR are not using up enough of the aircrafts' respective range to be affected to the point where they would have to stop.

By balancing their fuel allocations the Asian operators are preserving most of their non-stops and sacrificing one daily to stopping with a very small upload at LHR (to get them to STN for example).

Not sure what compromise on pax/cargo is being made.
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