Originally Posted by
beautiful_butterfly
787-8 might be better suited for these sort of routes for mainline making the discussion almost entirely mute.
A320/21s for similar routes for a low cost carrier.
Customers don’t really want this. Only MBA thin pencil people do.
It’s not just QF.
Plenty of full service carriers worldwide are moving to the 321XLR. American, United, Air Canada and Aer Lingus all getting the XLR to do transatlantic back of the clocks east coast USA to Europe on thinner routes.
And narrowbody long haul might be new to Australia but not to the rest of the world. The 757 had been doing lots of transatlantic flights through it’s history, and the 321XLR is basically the narrowbody replacement for the 757.
Just because pilots
think they should be flying widebodies internationally doesn’t mean that’s what will happen.