Originally Posted by
747FC
The press release says that the new planes' range is only 400 mi more than the current 330s. I thought that the 350s were supposed to have much more range, enabling travel to places as distant as Europe. Does the change from the 350 to the 330 bring with it a fundamental change in prospects for serving distant markets?
As this is only an MOU and not an official order, I suspect there is much more to this story than we know today. I too wonder how the 330-800neo is an effective replacement for the 350.