Airbus believes the ALR will expand the market considerably over the Boeing long-range routes today. Source: Airbus. Category: Airbus , Boeing. Is that a new name for the GTF or did I miss anything? This is the plane that potentially brings the LCCs to transcontinental routes. And think what it can do on the African routes? Now we need visionaries to make it happen.
Hello I fully support the trend about the AneoLR might be a good tool for european LCC to start long range operations US east cost -medium size european cities for instance. I wonder about the Airbus market study about the likely impact my feeling about Aneo LR on future A sales. Main drawbacks are lack of space in the cargo area for luggages and fuel system trouble shooting with 3 ACT.
I think the lr market is huge, as smaller countries launch more direct services from the EUUS… AerLingus and Icelandair are doing very well in this sector, and are well placed for growth, especially with a modern, reliable, confortable, and fuel efficent new aircraft. It presumably also includes many freighters, such as those flown by Fedex, and therefore completely irrelevant to the ALR passenger plane.
This surely has to win the prize for the most nonsensical PR piece ever produced by an airframe manufacturer. And believe me, the competition for that award is hotly contested. I have a question. Are they offering a HGW A, but without the extra fuel tank, for hot and high customers? Leahy no doubt is pissed he led this slide slip in.
Regarding field performance, any aircraft with a higher take-off weight and the same basic aerodynamics and same thrust needs longer runways. Specially on hot and high conditions. Seemingly available for all A it should give the plain NEO significantly?
