Weight reduction: It costs Alaska Airlines about $33 in fuel burn to carry one pound of weight around on a plane for a year. With more than 109 aircraft flying an average of 36,500 flight hours per year, that adds up to a whopping $3,577 of extra cost per year for every additional pound of weight. “If every aircraft carried 300 pounds of unnecessary weight, it would cost us more than $1 million per year in additional fuel burn,” said Kuehmstedt.

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