Airlines Save Gas By Slowing Down, Just Like Drivers
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 05. 2.08
credit a73700 Creative Commons
The airlines aren't in the best of shape these days with sky-high fuel prices, and are trying everything, except barrel-rolls to shake change out of our pockets, to save money. Now they are learning tricks from the hypermilers and slowing down to save fuel. Southwest Airlines will save $42 million in fuel this year by adding one to three minutes to each flight. Northwest Airlines cut their speed 10 MPH on a flight from Minneapolis to Paris and saved $535 in fuel, but added 8 minutes. Just what we needed: more time in the sardine can.
Soon they might be down to turboprop speed and we might have to re-think this whole short-haul flying thing. ::New York Times
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