Mitch read in BA news that airlines across the board are cancelling several flights a day for a five month period.
Take a wild, wild stab at how many flights you think that is. Total, globally, all airlines, five months.
I was thinking one million, but said 500,000 for fear of looking stupid.
One of Mitch's co-workers said 40,000.
What's your guess? Let me know what you really thought by leaving a comment.
Now leave your comment guess before you read the following. I'm going to tell you what the number really is, based on a British Airways estimate. Would you ever have guessed in a million years that the answer is fourteen million flights? In only five months? Yeah, me neither. Environmentalists everywhere must be ecstatic.
I was happy and slightly concerned I was a lot closer than one of Mitch's co-workers.
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shoot! in trying not to read the rest of the entry and avoiding seeing the answer i posted *my* answer to the wrong entry. darn auto-scroll!!! 62,000... *62,000 says I*!
ReplyDeleteholy crap... 14,000,000 is silly. just silly. and i was way off. okay, drinking my wine now and will continue to contemplate how many airplanes are in the sky right now- and how dangerous that traffic scenario is.
ReplyDelete10. Did I win?
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