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Old 04-24-2008, 06:45 AM   #9
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Re: Now that's a lot of money!

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Originally Posted by redsmetz View Post
I was just listening to a report on NPR about Delta Air Lines reporting that they lost $6 Billion in the 1st Quarter this year. I did the math and that's

$763 per second
$45,787 per minute
$2.75 Million per hour
$65.9 Million per day
$461.5 Million per month

Ouch! That's an incredible amount of money.
It's actually worse than that because they lost the 6 billion over three months and not over an entire year.
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