Originally Posted by Royiv
It's going to be fun watching one of those fully loaded pigs try to make a transcon flight with ~20 extra pax and their bags in the middle of summer. Hello, fuel stop! I think it's probably safe to assume that most of these birds are going be going to the East because a fully loaded 321 with that much capacity isn't going to have the legs out of PHX or LAS on a hot summer day.
Yes...the 321's range sucks. I doubt they'll see much duty in the west unless it's short-haul under 2000 miles. Like you, I can't see one of these pulling out of LAS fully loaded on a 105 degree day bound for FLL.