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Old 12th Dec 2002, 23:32
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Question QF A330 200 v 300

Can someone out there tell me if the following is true?

They tell me that the A330-200 series aircraft is equipped with the capacity for fuel in the vertical stab and the 300 is not!

The reason i'm asking is that it is my belief that to re-fuel a 200 series you have to fill the tail first then the centre and wings, which when considering that QF are going to use these aircraft for domestic duties it seems a bit odd to be carrying so much fuel around.

Apparently when Airbus were quizzed on this the reply was in a positive way "Ohh well it just means that you only have to fill it once a day, in the morning"

There is also talk that marketing/ops may have stuffed up by not using the greater range of the 200 aircraft on the international routes.



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