heath rowe in north america things are far more disparate of course there are a number of key locations for airline hubbing atlanta new york los angeles dallas and mall in fact NUMBER_TOKEN airports in the u.s handle more than NUMBER_TOKEN million passengers a year and a further NUMBER_TOKEN airports exceed NUMBER_TOKEN million and therein lies the problem the only way for the large aNUMBER_TOKEN to succeed is to have a high concentration of traffic from one or two of these airports to other places in the world but by the nature of the us people have more choice of departure point so the traffic is more spread out the aNUMBER_TOKEN doesn't make sense on many of the international routes and on those where it might have there was another big flaw the arrival of the aNUMBER_TOKEN in NUMBER_TOKEN was poorly timed the price of jet fuel had begun to creep up by NUMBER_TOKEN it was floating around four dollars a gallon this made airlines shy away from the high cost operations of four engine jets of the NUMBER_TOKENs and NUMBER_TOKENs and to look instead to fuel efficiency as a major deciding factor sales of boeing NUMBER_TOKEN had begun to dry up too airlines were already turning to boeing's high-capacity twin jet the triple seven for their future long-haul needs between NUMBER_TOKEN and the NUMBER_TOKEN release of the aNUMBER_TOKEN almost NUMBER_TOKEN triple sevens were sold a large number going to american and united it's clear that the u.s airlines had already made their choice the long-haul aircraft for the NUMBER_TOKENs was to be a boeing not an airbus and not one of them would ever purchase an aNUMBER_TOKEN do you think one of the american carriers could have made the aNUMBER_TOKEN work for them let us know in the comments if you liked this video please like and subscribe to the simple flying channel and be sure to click the notification bell
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