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what gets me is that according to a friend of mine who works for a big airline, whenever airline pilots get jerked around by the executives of the airline, they slow the plane down, and that with big airplanes it takes more fuel to go slower! (more of the energy is used to keep it up) doing this costs the airline alot of money in wages and fuel I think he said $3,000 per hour just for the fuel, but that is sounding low.
they can do this of course by just saying that they think the slower speed is safer, and safty trumps it all.
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