Why Flying is So Expensive | Wendover Productions
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Why Flying is So Expensive | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 14, 202615 min
  • Business & money

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Flying is expensive. Why is this? Well, most would say it's because of the cost of fuel, but that's not entirely true. The Airbus A320neo can carry 6,400 gallons of fuel.

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That's the equivalent of 376 fully tanked Toyota Camrys. For every mile that the A320 flies, it burns 1.5 gallons of jet fuel. That works out to upholstery 0.67 miles per gallon. An A320 could barely fly from the Empire State Building to Grand Central Terminal on that gallon

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of fuel. To fly that 213 miles from New York to DC, that A320 needs 317 gallons of fuel. With that amount, our Toyota Camry could drive from New York to LA 49 times. But, we do have to consider that a Camry only seats 5. An A320 seats 154. So, assuming that our plane is fully loaded, it now has a per-person fuel efficiency of

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