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Airbus A350 jet flies 24 hours nonstop from Australia to France (reuters.com)
11 points by JumpCrisscross 22 hours ago
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andy99 22 hours ago
> The first aircraft, which carries 20,000 litres of fuel and can seat 238 passengers

Pretty sure a zero is missing right? Wikipedia says normal A350 capacity is ~150k litres if I’m looking at the right thing.

200k litres means almost 1k per person, literally a ton of fuel.

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cjbenedikt 20 hours ago
https://www.aircraft.airbus.com/en/aircraft/a350/a350-1000 max 168,300 litres of fuel and max 480 seats.
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schiffern 19 hours ago
That's the regular A350-1000. This is the A350-1000ULR, which has an additional 20,600 L rear tank.

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/stories/2026-07-extending...

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andy99 18 hours ago
Looks like they updated the article to say 20,000 litres of additional fuel, it wasn’t like that before as what I posted above was a copy paste.

Edit: it actually says at the bottom:

  (This story has been refiled to add the dropped word 'additional' in paragraph 8)
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