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  • > 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.

  • https://www.aircraft.airbus.com/en/aircraft/a350/a350-1000 max 168,300 litres of fuel and max 480 seats.
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