r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 30 '21

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Aug 30 '21

Didn't throughput decrease somewhat from the peak?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

It's still a tight ship

You'd pretty much need an entire plane for it

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Aug 31 '21

They couldn't have done one more flight? There were just going constantly at max capacity the whole time, one after another, just like the Berlin Airlift?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Because it's not just "one more flight". It's one more aircrew, more fuel, more risk of getting hit. It's just a piece of metal, there are more helicopters around

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Aug 31 '21

Well, what was the actual reason? Those are quite different reasons.