Originally Posted by
GA Driver
Wouldn't be too stressed about this for awhile. Whilst it WILL do a Bali flight from Eastcoast Aus ports, the range the thing doesn't have is a problem. Airbus quote the 321neo as having 4000nm range.......
Perhaps..... but not with 230 punters jetstar want, nor carrying ANY freight in the holds because they need to be filled with auxiliary fuel tanks.
Anywhere else in the JQ international network forget it.
I don’t pretend to be an expert on the 321neo, but I was reading something, somewhere, from Airbus the other week, that with a strengthened undercarriage being worked on, the 321LR supposedly will do that distance with around that number of punters. ‘Lightly configured’, whatever that means, a range closer to 5000nm was quoted
(quoted by Airbus, so take it with a grain of salt).