International Airlines Suspend Services to Venezuela One After Another

Nearshore Americas ^ | June 1, 2016

[Moltke]

$3.7 billion in withheld airline funds.

That's a lot of toilet paper.

OK, time for some number crunching.

In rough (no pun intended) numbers, I recently bought a 10-pack of 3-ply, 200 sheets x 130mm length/sheet per roll @ $2.50.

That puts us at 260 m of soft posterior comfort for $2.50.

$ 3.7 bn / $2.5 = 1.48 bn. Multiply by 260 m... appr. 385 bn meters which is 385 mn kilometers or appr. 240 million miles.

Earth's equator circumference is roughly 25k miles. 240 mn / 25 k = 9600.

So Venezuela owes the airlines 9600 equator lengths in toilet paper. That's a lot of sh!t.

[Moltke]

I see what you did there. Well done.

[xp38]

This is due to a drop in demand for business travel to the country

Yeah it's tough to do business when you can't even do your business.

[Vinnie]

Probably afraid they can’t refuel and get out.