On 9/7/06, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: >Other way around actually. Passenger Aircraft are cheaper to operate, >and longer ranged. Take the Passenger and Freight versions of the >747-400ER. The Passenger version can move between 416 and 524 passengers >depending on configuration, plus 4800-5600 cu ft of >freight/baggage(Based on passenger configuration) 14,205km in one go. >The Freighter version can move 112 tons, with a aggregate total of >31,967 cu ft of space (less for palletized cargo, which is the typical >method of shipment) but only has a range of 9200km, or it can carry 123 >tons of a similar sized cargo for greatly reduced range. It does use >approximately 6500 gallons less fuel in a max range flight, but that's >10% or so less fuel to go more than 30% less far (Freighter has 57,285 >US gallons capacity to the 63,705 gallons the passenger version carries) >. And fuel is the primary operating cost for aircraft. So you've got at >a minimum a 30% efficiency advantage here, and quite possibly more (Due >to palletization, which costs max load and size in favour of >significantly enhanced speed). Note that most small air freight goes via >passenger aircraft, one reason why it's much cheaper.
Adam, you're beyond redemption there lad. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
