Recs: 0 Bye Bye Long Haul Raj Nangia, an aeronautical engineer who has analyzed the issue for Britain's
Royal Aeronautical Society, says that flying 18 hours in one hop could double the cost of flying the same route with three stops. To fly far, a plane needs lots of fuel onboard, and to carry all that fuel, it needs even more fuel -- just as a car burns more fuel ...