Anyway, are we talking TAS or IAS?
You were talking about 340Kts IAS in cruise. Obviously you do not know what you are talking about, especially regarding an A330.
well logically, if you take longer to climb and you are going faster then you cover more ground in the climb........!
Again you show that you do not know what you are talking about, you mentioned 340kts IAS in the climb, lets assume you meant 320kts IAS. In a 330 you are right it will take you longer to climb. You will be lower for much longer doing your 320kts resulting in not that much better TAS for quite a while. Meanwhile I will have climbed in about half the time to FL330 and be sitting there with a GS of 500kts, you will only be doing about a GS of 400kts by then.
Who travels the furthest in the time it took you to climb at 320kts?
If you cannot understand the answer why pose an argument?
I understood your answer but what you are saying is wrong and shows a total lack of aviation knowledge, its obvious you don't do this for a living. So once again if you don't know what you are talking about why bother answering someones question?
Maybe the crew had got a Direct to - then - that portion of the flight plan consisted of a higher TAS, having chomped out all the interim waypoints in the Direct To process - the Flt Pln settled in in the new higher speed, then.
This is helping to prove the point, if you don't know what you are talking about why try to answer a question?