Air freight fuel costs

In order to put the fines at Manston into perspective, we would like to know what the fuel costs are for flying a fully laden 747-400 freight plane from, say, Nairobi to Manston. And maybe the fuel cost of flying the same, mostly empty, plane back again.

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