Originally Posted by
G-CIVC
Many of the people on that forum work for CX and its related businesses, and it's a great resource for learning some technical knowledge related to planes. I don't see why they would have to make things up if that wasn't true. Not sure if you also work for CX, but well, inconsistency is a huge part of CX culture
There is a Chinese saying, rumors don't surface out of nothingness. I guess time will tell.
(from someone NOT excited at all about flying 35g long haul for the first time next week)
To add to [MENTION=638306]winnipegrev[/MENTION] the A359 range specs are hardly a trade secret, Airbus will happily share them. Obviously each airline specs theirs slightly differently but the A359 can do EWR with close to 40t, which is 5-10t more than passengers + baggage.