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Airlines Save Big Money by Slowing Down
New York to Houston takes over an hour longer now than it did in 1973. This is despite the fact there have been huge advances in aircraft technology. Carriers are instructing their pilots to slow down to save money. (www.dailymail.co.uk) 기타...
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Looks like they compare take off-to-landing times from 1973 to gate-to-gate times today. New York to Houston is ~1200 nm, flying that at 500 knots takes 2:24 hours. Today's planes capable of flying this distance in 1:24 hours at 857 knots are not really built to cater to the airlines. Hardly any of them have more than two seats.
OK sure. We used to fly at .78 rather than .82 for savings. Don't forget they are also padding schedules to pretend they are on time more than they really are....
Did anyone perform a sanity check on this article? This just jumped out to me as BS!
Flying from New York to Houston in 2 hours and 37 minutes!!! If you assume 15 min on the ground on each side, you would need to average Mach 1 over the flight! If you had ZERO time on the ground, you would need to average 0.8... AVERAGE speed!
I attempted to fact-check and my results primarily point to math errors on the part of the author, amongst other errors.
How many folks here believe that the author did NOT convert the time zones?
Flying from New York to Houston in 2 hours and 37 minutes!!! If you assume 15 min on the ground on each side, you would need to average Mach 1 over the flight! If you had ZERO time on the ground, you would need to average 0.8... AVERAGE speed!
I attempted to fact-check and my results primarily point to math errors on the part of the author, amongst other errors.
How many folks here believe that the author did NOT convert the time zones?
Maybe this is what passes for "journalism" nowadays, in this era of fake news and propaganda. No reason to check facts or sources......
It's The Mail, so...
That's quite an accusation, given what this article is about. You might be overreacting.
The only thing that is padded is the schedule that's publicly communicated by each airline -- which isn't even real. In real life, every ground action is meticulously coordinated down to the minute, but can be hampered by ground holds or other clearance delivery issues. Those facts are irrelevant to this story. The interesting fact here is that airlines are saving money in an amount greater than the burdened labor costs incurred by the extra minutes of flight time while traveling at slightly slower speeds.
