Originally Posted by
mduell
We'll have to see the final payload-range diagram, everything public so far is marketing nonsense (4x00 nm), but even after you've given up all that belly space to fuel tanks, you still take a bigger hit from the headwind due to the lower cruising speed.
Cruise speed difference is minimal, 13mph or about 10 minutes difference on a TATL trip for example so not sure I follow that logic.
Originally Posted by
Kacee
Considering that no 321XLR have been delivered (and won't be for more than three years) use of the present tense ("has") is unwarranted. Everything is a projection at this point.
As warranted as the quoted post stating that the aircraft has “even less range westbound” I would say :-)
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Dec 4, 2019 at 12:49 am
Reason: merged consecutive posts by same member