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Old Mar 20, 2007, 12:02 pm
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motytrah
 
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Originally Posted by humanoid94
Wow... that is a big difference in lift. A beach market 747-200 has 30 business and 400 coach seats, while an A330 has 264 coach seats and 34 business. That is a net loss of 132 coach seats on a 1500 mile flight. I can only assume those 747-200s are drinking fuel like it is going out of style for those numbers to work.
They'd really really have to drinking fuel since the fee structure in and out of NRT heavily favors flying 747's and similar sized planes. However, it's not like NW is really in the position to replace the 742's with similar sized metal. My guess is the bean counters crunched the numbers of the next few years and this was the best they could do to eek out a little more money.
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