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What I am saying is that you can only save so much on the flight time over such a short range when the overall trip has fixed time segments. If we were looking at shaving off seven hours of a 20-21 hour London-Sydney trip then yeah, that's massive even if the flight itself is merely 19 hours of that.



In other words, running into Amdahl's Law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law




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