Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
I think we have discussed this before, but I believe in Attila. I am not sure how me we spend on it. I hope some very smart people have done their homework and it indeed makes us money. However, from an untrained observer, flying into the busiest airport in the world is very easy. And I can't remember the last time I've been vectored. You fly the route assigned to you, and ATC speeds you up plus or minus 10 knots of so. Seems to me that something is working.
I have no idea whether it saves us money or not. I do find it interesting that when you get an RTA message and you plug the crossing time into the box that the throttles will go to .83 for 10 minutes to try and make that time.. fuel flow goes yee haw, and it would seem that all those savings go out the tailpipe. But Mongo only pawn, in game of life.