Originally Posted by
kjnangre
Ummm, DL's A350 can handle every route in the network except for JNB. China, Australia, West Coast to Europe, are all fine (and my personal guess is they'll buy a few A350ULRs which can reach JNB)
The 350 can handle it but even the 350ULR it is not as capable as the 77L. It's been discussed at quite length on both airliners.net and on the airline pilot boards. The 77L is a payload beast. No restrictions. The A350 will be limited by alternate airports on LAX-SYD and will have to be payload optimized. Singapore had to limit their A350ULR to just 160 seats. It's certainly not any competition to the 77L. But Delta has decided they don't need that capability anymore so that's that.