In defense to the increasing price of fuel, some American airlines are flying slowly to save on fuel.

Southwest Airlines started flying slower two months ago and prediction shows its will save $42 million in fuel this year by extending the flights to one to three minutes only. A slow flight of Northwest Airlines from Paris to Minneapolis already saved 162 gallons of fuel and saving the airline $535 which only added eight minutes to the flight making the whole flight to eight hours and 58 minutes.

And the savings add up, JetBlue adds on average of two minutes to each flight and saves about $13.6 million a year on jet fuel. Adding four minutes to its flights to and from Hawaii saves Northwest Airlines $600,000 a year on those flights alone.

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The slower flights are not necessarily inconvenient to passengers, especially to the airlines, though there are still some who opposes and demands to ticket price decrease. Since they are already saving a lot on fuel, it wouldn’t hurt to cut-off few dollars to not-so fast flights.