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From: cfiaime@ihnp4.UUCP (Jeff Williams)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Fuel consumption for 727 or 737?
Message-ID: <750@ihnp4.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 09:09:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 09:09:37 1985
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> What is the operating cost/hour for a 727 or 737?
> Or what is the fuel consumption/hr for those airplanes?
> 
Last fall I had the pleasure of writing a proposal to use general
aviation aircraft to replace using air carriers for corporate travel.
In my proposal, I noted that the average seat cost in a Boeing 727
from Chicago to Newark was $44.75 not including any non-aircraft expense.
I figured about 643 nautical miles (739 statute), and 1 hour 40 minutes
enroute.

> Peoples and Piedmont have a price war on Newark to Greensboro.
> The fare is $29.  On Peoples it used to be $60.
> 
> The distance is in the order of 500 miles, and flight time is about
> 1hr and 15 minutes.

Using these figures, derived from Aviation Week data, October 15, 1984,
these two airlines are losing their shirts on the fare.

(The following is an editorial comment:)
I am sorry to see Piedmont having to fight Peoples in a fare war.  
Piedmont has always struck me as being a professional type of carrier,
while Peoples is somewhat rag-tag.  (Really, what professional crew
would miss missing flaps on a 727 pre-flight?)  I also am quite miffed
at Peoples attitudes about general aviation.  

				jeff williams
				AT&T Bell Laboratories
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