Well this came out of nowhere. Less than a year after launching operations, Flybe has gone out of business again. Yes, the (sort of) same Flybe that went out of business back in 2020, but was then relaunched with new investors…
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At the expense of being a little pedantic, I would like to point out here that usng the lowercase suffix 'm' instead of 'million is an extremely British thing to do. No offence against anyone!
Why do you have to write billion/ million/ thousand etc in full rather than $1b /€2m or £1k ? Or should we write eccetera rather than use etc.?
Moreover it’s not a British habit, in France
2m€, in Italy miliardo - 5mrd€ and German it’s mio ( million)
The you have kgs for kilos and so forth.
As a Brit working for a US company, I think the point is the common US abbreviation is "MM" vs. "m" in the UK, not that VT-CIE objects to all abbreviations. The US sometimes uses the Latin numeral system and so "M" can mean thousand and using "m" is ambiguous.
I believe the custom is to use "M" (1,000) or "MM" (meaning 1,000 times 1,000) when speaking in technical terms: (5MMBtu, 5MM cash on hand, 5M iu Vitamin D), and use "m" when we mean a million ($5m).
At the expense of being a little pedantic, I would like to point out here that using 'usng' instead of 'using' is an extremely incorrect thing to do. No offence against anyone!
Clarity is useful, and clearly people have thoughts about M and m and k as quantity multipliers. Talking about billion, million, and thousands (with actual words) is hardly a terrible thing. This isn't a text message, and there are no character limits.
An airline literally died, and all the comments are about units and abbreviations?