I was on a 06:40am flight from Heathrow to Edinburgh this morning, run by BMI. It was half full. Also waiting in the departure lounge were passengers for the 06:50am British Airways flight… to Edinburgh.
What a waste of everyone’s resources in the name of consumer choice. I have travelled on British Airways flights before, and the service provided is exactly the fucking same as that provided by BMI, and for the same cost. If only we could pool them into a single service at, say, 06:45am or something.
Perhaps this is something that The State could organise?
Perhaps you should ask the Queen :-)
Since her goodfornothing sons keep nicking helicopters to get to the golf course, I doubt she would be much help.
I’ve just had a thought. If the plane is half empty, won’t the fuel consumption be lower? I feel somehow this might be relevant in some way.
i don’t think the number of passengers makes a significant difference to a plane’s absolute fuel consumption; two 1/2 full planes will use almost 200% of the fuel of one full one (ba.com tells me an A320 uses 655 gallons per hour!).
Also, the fewer the passengers, the higher the fuel used per passenger…