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A mid-size jet Cessna Citation has range of 5,100 miles - it's one of the most popular mid size jets.

• magduf 7y ago
  5100nm isn't nearly far enough to go from the east coast of the US to Asia.
  • TomMarius 7y ago
    It is not, but that much range is an exception even with airliners.
    • magduf 7y ago
      It's not an "exception", it's totally normal for the huge jets that Asian airlines fly for their intercontinental routes. Sure, you don't need that much range to go from NYC-LON, but I'd argue that that's an "exception" as such a short route that happens to cross an ocean and is also popular. The Pacific is a much larger ocean. You're not going to get between any major Asian destination (China, Japan, Korea) and other major endpoints (Australia, US, Europe) non-stop with such short range, but the Asian airlines do these routes all the time.
      • TomMarius 7y ago
        Are most airliners intercontinental? I am not sure, I know data for Europe.
        • magduf 7y ago
          Most airliners? I doubt it; the smaller ones like 737 are usually used for shorter routes. By numbers, I would guess the large majority of air traffic is shorter-route, and with smaller planes. Most air travelers, after all, are not traveling between places as far apart as Syndey and NYC. But that's not the issue here; my contention way above was the private jets aren't any good for extremely long-distance intercontinental routes, and no one has disproven this assertion yet, though several have tried.