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Old Dec 21, 2024 | 5:42 pm
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Originally Posted by TWA884
The Boeing 787 is certified for 330 minute ETOPS, that's 5 hours and 30 minutes

The Airbus A350 XWB is certified for up to 370 minute ETOPS, that's 6 hours and 10 minutes.
Yes. I was responding to this from LarryJ:

​​​​​I doubt the nearest alternate will be thousands of miles away. Likely within about three hours, usually much closer.​​
For the routes being discussed those higher ETOPS levels are necessary precisely because the nearest alternate is, for the middle part of the route, thousands of miles and more than 3 hours away.
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