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Originally Posted by Acey
Except A -700 cannot fly 3,275 nm at anything resembling a max payload, which is what you stated. It cannot even reliably fly 2,800 nm with max payload. Good thing the actual airplanes I work with aren't using charts off the internet. Boeing revised down all their design ranges for this very reason, so the chart is entirely useless anyway.
The point remains that 737 and 319 are making the same tradeoffs... ask the Rouge guys whose 319 to Halifax regularly leaves payload behind in favour of fuel, despite being well within range as per your chart.
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Page 10 and 11 of the second link address your semantics. I personally have the full set of flight manuals for 737 and 787 AC. But you don't need 1500 pages to point out that yes there is a range vr. passenger load trade-off for most every aircraft. That airlines usually don't put larger capacity AC on a thin route where seat mile costs don't generate returns.
Don't confuse MTOW with passenger payload range, with the only other factor(s) weather and reserves.
Have a nice day.