Title: Re: [USMA:33807] Airlines use kilometres
Dear David,
I'm sure that you are right. I just Googled my way through the web pages of about ten airlines and they all used things like kilometre-tonnes and things such as 'RPKs' that stands for 'Revenue Passenger Kilometres'.
Leaving aside the misspelling of kilometres they generally use correct metric forms and seem to be consistent internally in their use of metric measures.
However, they also universally dumb down to old pre-metric measures for dealing with the public.
It's quite bizarre behaviour and if an individual behaved this way we would tend to avoid them because of their irrational inconsistency.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin ASM (NSAA), LCAMS (USMA)*
PO Box 305, Belmont, Geelong, Australia
Phone 61 3 5241 2008
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on 2005-08-03 08.34, David King at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At my place of work, I see various documents relating to various
> companies and industries. For legal reasons, I cannot divulge any
> specific information, but, I did notice today that in a document
> relating to airlines, that they measure distances in kilometres. No
> mention of miles or nautical miles. It was mostly about costs of seats
> and how many kilometres the airlines fly. The airlines were British and
> from other countries.
>
> I wonder if perhaps the American airlines also use kilometres in their
> calculations and accounting, and dumb down to miles for communication
> with their passengers?
>
> David King
>
