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Not that I'm in the market, but this page has the sales pitch stuff on it, and it's pretty interesting reading:

https://aircraft.airbus.com/en/aircraft/a320/a321xlr

According to a few other sites they appear to cost between 130 and 140 million. Looks like they've sold some already too.

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"London" https://imgur.com/a/RSVdLjM

After Brexit it was much cheaper to just move London into the middle of France, apparently.

Sheesh, and I thought the commute from Stansted to the city was rough.

meh, National Express takes you to Golders Green where you have the northern line.

On the maps of where it can fly, are they using some super advanced model to give the 'odd' shapes (for example the delhi one, which is totally not just a circle projected onto the globe and then reprojected onto a map)?

Or is it just an artist impression who was given a list of cities and has drawn a dotted line around them?

I wondered from your question whether it was accounting for ETOPS requirements but it doesn't look like it.

> Or is it just an artist impression who was given a list of cities and has drawn a dotted line around them?

Seems to be the latter, some cities aren't even in the right place (London is set in french Brittany, Rome seems to be adrift in the Thyrrenian sea).

Rather purchase an EUV machine for that price.

Why would an airliner purchase and EUV machine? Unless you know something I don’t. Delta 4nm process node coming to a chip near you.

Funnily of all airline companies out there you picked Delta which is not to be confused with Delta Electronics (https://www.deltaww.com/), so a Delta 4nm node is not that far-fetched.

One EUV machine does not a fab make.

Yes, TSMC are apparantly investing $12 billion [1] to build and maintain their new Arizona fab over ~10 years. So yeah, costs a bit more than the $200m EUV machine!

1. https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/tsmc-confirms-5nm-fab-in-us/

But that can only do 4nm, so the airbus is like 1000x better

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