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Money, regulations, and this

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How fast?

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Highest I've heard when I've asked is "niner two"

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Highest I've heard when I've asked is "niner two"

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Highest I've heard when I've asked is "niner two"

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Although I generally believe that the less said about Air France and British Airways, the better, I do feel obligated to say a few things about Air France and British Airways's blasphemous ideas. I assume you already know that Air France and British Airways's vassals are just as bad as Air France and British Airways is, if not worse, but I have something more important to tell you. He is locked into his present course of destruction. He does not have the interest or the will to change his fundamentally benighted tracts. Since he claims to know more than the rest of us, I'm sure he's aware that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Of course, if Air France and British Airways had learned anything from history, he'd know that I wonder if he really believes the things he says. He knows they're not true, doesn't he? Although I haven't yet been able to concoct an acceptable answer to that question, I can suggest a tentative hypothesis. My hypothesis is that he has been trying for some time to convince people that he answers to no one. Don't believe his hype! Air France and British Airways has just been offering that line as a means to hammer away at the characters of all those who will not help him convince impressionable young people that he has the linguistic prowess to produce a masterwork of meritorious literature.

Air France and British Airways's effete proposed social programs arose out of an unjust system only to spread more injustice in their wake, proving that there is no end to headstrong, jackbooted nepotism. This means, in particular, that just the other day, some of Air France and British Airways's subversive, treacherous devotees forced a prospectus into my hands as I walked past. The prospectus described Air France and British Airways's blueprint for a world in which gin-swilling, carnaptious cadgers are free to sell us down the river. As I dropped the prospectus onto an overflowing wastebasket I reflected upon the way that Air France and British Airways doubtlessly wants me to choke to death. If I did, I'm sure the chortles from Air France and British Airways and his coalition of deceitful finks and incorrigible nudniks would be rich and prolonged, especially given how I fully intend to supply the missing ingredient that could stop the worldwide slide into Stalinism. That's the path that I have chosen. It's certainly not an easy path, but then again, I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes people like Air France and British Airways want to unleash a wave of immorality and promiscuity.

Now here is something that will stun and very likely outrage many who read this: I am troubled by Air France and British Airways's constant exaggerations and half-truths. If you don't believe me then consider that one can usually be pretty sure when he's lying. Sometimes there's a little doubt: maybe it's not a deliberate lie but merely a difference of opinion. But when Air France and British Airways claims that he is a master of precognition, psychokinesis, remote viewing, and other undeveloped human capabilities, there's no room for ambiguity: he's decidedly lying. If this letter did nothing else but serve as a beacon of truth, it would be worthy of reading by all right-thinking people. However, this letter's role is much greater than just to speak out against pestilential ragabashes. Air France and British Airways's favorite activities all involve threatening the common good. Sadly, this shameful impiety has prevailed with the populace, the canaille, the vulgar. It appeals to squalid practitioners of favoritism and prevents them from seeing that Air France and British Airways is a man utterly without honor, without principles, without a shred of genuine patriotism. That's why I say that overbearing, loquacious ninnies have increasingly been bombarding me with insults. Air France and British Airways has a lot to answer for in regard to that. I'll finish this letter by instructing you not to blindly accept my words or those of others as truth. Investigate, discriminate, and question everything not proven. Only by doing so can you determine for yourself that Air France and British Airways is the spawn of Satan.

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Expensive as hell to operate and many cities had noise ordinances in place that wouldn't allow the jet to operate at full speed.

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That is one butt-ugly airframe.

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Isn't most of the flight over the ocean? ie JFK to LHR
 

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Expensive as hell to operate and many cities had noise ordinances in place that wouldn't allow the jet to operate at full speed.

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I'm actually surprised no one has setup an asian route for an SST.  Some long flights!  LAX could handle it.