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Originally Posted by pornguy
The report the cost of flying in Airforce 1 as 180K an hour? I think thats a bit on the low side actually.
I think Delta posted one time in an interview that it costs more than 80K just to start the engines of an airplane that big. And that the run time was more than 4 times that.
I can only imagine the real cost of this one.
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No.. It costs about $200,000 to fly one on a normal route. And $80,000 of it is to takeoff and reach cruising altitude. Not start the engines.
In the article Delta was stating that nobody wants four engines anymore because no plane ever had more than 200 to 300 people on it anymore. So the math doesn't work on spreading the fuel cost and paying the flight crew.