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Old 14th Jul 2012, 10:08
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With planes, as with cars, it's the larger ones which give the manufacturer the highest profit margins.

As some have pointed out, the A321 is a lot heavier than the A320 and needs to be the size it is to maintain its operating cost per seat advantage. So an A321 shrink is not on the cards.

A 200-seat A320 stretch would seriously threaten the economic position of the A321, a situation I suspect Airbus will do everything to avoid.
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