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@TimWardCam @docpop Empty airliners can get phenomenal performance taking off with only enough fuel for a short repositioning flight, or they can reduce engine power and have the same flight performance. So it's not unbelievable that a spot of kerosene would be cheaper thas parking - you don't need much when the plane is basically an overgrown Cessna Skyhawk.
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@ellenor2000 @docpop I've been in a 747 which did (at the end of a transcontinental flight) a short hop from somewhere like Dusseldorf to Paris with maybe a dozen people left on board. I've never seen a rate of climb like it! - I'm slightly surprised that the SID allowed it!
Yes, that 757 (IIRC) could almost certainly not have taken off from Cambridge fully laden with fuel and passengers. Empty isn't a problem.