and often push planes traveling to Europe.
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This reduces flight time, fuel consumption, and operating costs.
On long-haul routes, small differences represent enormous savings. Fuel is one of the biggest expenses for any airline and can represent nearly 30% of operating costs.
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That’s why airlines carefully plan routes, altitudes, and trajectories to take advantage of every possible weather condition.
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The “invisible highways” of the Atlantic
Transatlantic flights don’t fly randomly over the ocean. There are organized routes called NAT Tracks, a kind of invisible
