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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Not sure why people rip on commercial air travel so much.

    Some “back of the napkin math here”.

    A380 can hold 84,545 gallons of fuel, and has a range of 9200 miles, giving it a fuel economy of roughly 0.1MPG…

    Except it can carry 853 people at a time. At 1/3rd capacity, it exceeds the average fuel economy per person per mile than a car with a single person in it in the US. (26mpg). At full capacity it’s around 85 mpg/person.