Originally Posted by
jsloan
Frankly, the specs of the XLR terrify me. It's
way too much plane. I'm concerned that you'll start to see single-aisle service to Asia: SFO-HND is less than 4500nm; SFO-ICN and SFO-PEK are both just longer than 4700nm. If UA finds that the plane outperforms the specs...
In theory the slots at HND should be too valuable to waste on a smaller aircraft -- though that didn't save the A380 at LHR. The XLR is for long-and-thin routes, so maybe SFO-CTS. That's only 4,150 nm, so it should work out nicely.
Originally Posted by
pseudoswede
Instead of sinking a ton of money on the NMA, Boeing probably would've been better off seeing if they could take the 767-200 frame, slap new engines and some carbon fiber on it, and called it the 752 replacement. Looking at an
older seat map, it could've been configured to pretty much have the same capacity as the 752.
That's what they're reportedly looking at (for one of the larger variants), perhaps minus the composite wing.