Originally Posted by Jackonicko;[url=tel:11322748
11322748]Really?
That's astonishing, to me, at least.
I was surprised too. Interestingly the target IAS (actually flown as a Mach no.) at low single digit cost index on LEAP equipped narrowbody in the mid twenties on a short sector is only a few knots higher than the speeds flown by the larger TPs.
On the TPs I used to fly we would descend at a higher IAS than I do now on a LEAP equipped narrowbody. As mentioned above, technological convergence for the most frequent use case. The newest LEAP equipped narrowbodies are proving to be real Swiss Army knives, doing everything from ETOPS to domestic sectors very efficiently.