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United Airlines Boeing 757s’ Days Numbered
United's SVP of Global Network Planning and Alliances has confirmed that its entire fleet of 757s will be replaced by Airbus A321XLRs. (www.gatechecked.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
A beautiful work of aeronautical engineering. Performance, efficiency, and semi-wide body comfort. And one of the first ‘quiet’ aircraft. Boeing should have modernized this instead of trying to make ‘whatever the Max is’ to fly like a 737. It takes a while, but allowing finance to overrule engineering eventually takes its toll. IMHO, of course.
Agreed, all good points, though “semi-wide body comfort” is a bit of an illusion: the 757 has the same 1950s-design fuselage width as all other Boeing single-aisle airliners - 707, 720, 727, and the much-maligned on this forum 737.
But if I remember right, 757 had larger luggage bins than 737, particularly the earlier 737s. So yeah, single aisle, but still a different overall cabin.
This is a huge commercial defeat for Boeing. Should be a jolting wake-up call, if they haven't had enough already.
Unfortunately, Boeing continues to sleepwalk to whatever its end will be. They continue to ignore their most fundamental problems, of which there are many.
Agree. Boeings offering is a 737 Max 10, which IMO might never be licensed. Certifications, if any, will take months or years from now
Not sure what kind of wakeup call one needs when they have been asleep for 20 years.
Sad to see another one of the great US companies fall prey to one terrible management decision after another, sitting now with a deer in the headlights look. I read a statement somewhere they were waiting for technology. Yeah, great plan.
"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - General George Patton
Sad to see another one of the great US companies fall prey to one terrible management decision after another, sitting now with a deer in the headlights look. I read a statement somewhere they were waiting for technology. Yeah, great plan.
"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - General George Patton