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6.4 ECONOMIC BENEFITS
It may be that 5 or 10 kg extra fuel per flight does not seem significant in terms of the total fuel burn during the flight. However this saving accumulates with every flight. Sometimes the savings for an A340 seem worthwhile compared with the equivalent value for an A320, but the increased number of flight cycles for an A320 can make this saving more significant than that of the A340. The only way to assess the impact of any saving is to look at it over a given time span.
The economic impact calculations have assumed typical yearly utilisation rates, average sector lengths and sectors per year as follows:
Utilisation
A300
A310
A320
A330
A340
Flying Hours/year
2600
3200
2700
2900
4700
Average sector - nm
2000
2000
1000
4000
6000
Average flight time - hr
4.5
4.6
2.4
8.5
13.8
No of sectors/year
580
700
1125
340
340
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