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Cathay Pacific against the high fuel cost

Hong Kong, China - It will be decrease the weight of the aircraft to decrease the consumption

It is now a very strong fight that one of the airlines against raising fuel cost. To face this problem, that in the last years became very serious for a lot of carriers (see for details AVIONEWS 1, 2, 3 and 4), Cathay Pacific decided to lighten the weight of its cargo planes. The goal will be achieved keeping away the external painting of the 14 aircraft allowing to the aircraft to loose 200 kg. In...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 141981
Rome, Italy, 05/31/2006 18:22
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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