Burp
St. George's Island, MD
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According to the Department of Transportation, a domestic flight gets about 55MPG per passenger seat. See this link. But they only average 79% capacity so the real number is about 43MPG per passenger. Lets compare that against some RV scenarios.
RV................MPG..Passengers..MPG/Passenger
Diesel Class A....11....2........22
Fifth wheel..........9....4........36
SUV & PUP.........12....5........60
Minivan.............18....5........90
Commuter...........22....1........22
It is hard to get the chart to look right, hope you can understand it. You can play with the numbers but you get the idea. Flying can save some fuel but it is not near as fun. And a single commuter burns as much fuel as a diesel Class A.
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Terryallan
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Yes, but. Can you get that plane in a $25.00 per night campground? It may save a little fuel, but is more costly to do. \
BTW. Still gota drive from the airport to where ever you want to go. So not even much fuel savings.
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downtheroad
Puget Sound
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After putting up with what I had to on my last flight - you will have to arrest and handcuff me to get me on another commercial coach flight.
This doesn't include all the airport baloney.
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Lots of other stuff nobody cares about
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fred v.
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in my own airplane at 200mph and me and wife at 18gph we get 22mpg which isn't bad and can make our own schedule. fred
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skipnchar
Topeka Kansas USA
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I've TRIED flying so I'd get better mileage but the drapes in the trailer keep getting blown off the travis rods 
2004 F-250 SCREW Long Bed (new)
OR 2004 F-150 HD (85,000 towing miles)
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We have enough YOUTH...how about a fountain of SMART
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windriderjr
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Certainly worth a thought. If MPG were the only consideration, travel by plane is not only more efficient, it's much safer than driving.
OTOH, pretty much everyone on this forum would agree that RVing isn't about efficiency. We could fly and stay in hotels with rental cars but we choose to spend our time and money traveling in a "house on wheels" for reasons that are as different as there are people who do it.
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Big Katuna
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I WISH my DP got 11. 7-8 MPG more like it.
We are flying to Dallas for four nights at Thangksgiving. Not much fun taking the DP for a four night, 1000 mile trip.
Haven't figured out how to drive it to Europe either.
Not to mention the $10K per year depreciation.
Other than THAT Mrs. Lincoln, how was the opera?
My Kharma ran over my Dogma.
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TXBlue
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I would still prefer to travel with my RV over any other mode. But if you want to look at mpg economy, check out the railroad. They have some pretty impressive money saving numbers.
DW "Rose" 
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turninghawk
Gatlinburg, TN
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Terryallan wrote:Yes, but. Can you get that plane in a $25.00 per night campground? It may save a little fuel, but is more costly to do. \
BTW. Still gota drive from the airport to where ever you want to go. So not even much fuel savings.
But, with your observation, you're not taking into account that a 7 or 8-day cross country drive can be made in about 5 hours in a plane, so no need for overnighting or several days worth of food. Just an added thought.
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Economical Handyman
S. California
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After the last to plane trips, we both got sick after we got home!
I will pay the price for diesel fuel for the MH! No matter if it goes down to 6 M.P.G.
DeWayne & Judy
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ISL 370 9.3 mpg
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This is not the "GOLDEN-YEARS", it is the "RUSTY-YEARS" !
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