Quote: (06-08-2017 07:47 PM)PapayaTapper Wrote:
Quote: (06-08-2017 06:14 PM)Premium Wrote:
Myself personally I won't fly longer than 7 hours. I learned this after a 13 hour flight (Vancouver to Manila ..5 hours of turbulance) when my ears wouldn't pop for 5 days! I looked up the reason and the answer was long haul flights fly at a higher altitude...medium flights fly lower thus my ears aren't affected
Do you have a source for this?
I gotta kinda disagree with Premium here.
Airlines are all about the money, and an aircraft's filed altitude request is simply
what is determined to be the MOST fuel efficient altitude for that particular flight.
Type aircraft, weight, and weather conditions decide the gameplan. The less
amount of fuel, to achieve the desired speed, is the "sweet spot" airlines are
always looking for.
Maybe RIslander can chime in.. but I am 100% confident in what I wrote.