On: I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called

[loeg]

Where do you think the maintenance fees come from? That's in part a safety cost.

[edrxty → loeg]

Keep in mind, if you compromise maintenance for costs, you'll make up the costs in crew wages as they obviously have 1-2 orders of magnitude more risk exposure than the average passenger and won't be willing to fly for anything less than massive hazard pay.

[rdtwo → loeg]

Scheduled maintenance is done with semi slave labor in the 3rd world. Routine is more expense local labor but the routine stuff can’t be deferred anyway

[jhugo → loeg]

Fuel as well!

[edrxty → jhugo]

"this isn't enough fuel to get more than 80% of the way there!"

"you don't need fuel for the descent though"