Boeing Considers Developing a 757-PLUS Instead of New Mid-Market-Airplane Dubbed 797

Somewhere in Washington State there are a bunch of engineers saying I told you to do that years ago......

About F*#&ing time!!! The whole industry has been asking for new 757s,they aren't really happy with the new 737s which really look like short 757s anyway. The Max probably shouldn't ever fly again under that name, it's been too tarnished by issues that seem never ending.

Boeing management has been screwed up since they moved to Chicago!!! Two monkeys and a donkey could do a better job. It's time to clean house, move management back to Seattle where it belongs, near the folks who build them and return to suspenders and belt engineering which made the company great!

Just throwing this out there for Ss&Gs, a 757-300 with the 787 wing planform and new engines. Whatever it is is going to have to compete with the A321NEO, so it's going to be single aisle. (I know, I'm full of it, just having fun.)

The 757's substantial undercarriage alone puts it way out ahead of continually revamping the 737 which was only designed for JT8D engines after all!

If they don’t widen the fuselage it will fail. A big part of the A320 success stems from the fact that the regular flyers know its more comfortable. A few inches matter. I’ve heard it almost everyday from customers getting off my A320 flights for over 20 years. They should go a few inches wider than a A320/321 just to stay ahead.

That forces you into a new type but now you can take advantage of new wing technology and gain a real advantage over the A321NEO.

The 757 was a great airplane, but tecnology has made it obsolete. And the 737 failures have shown us what happens when you try to take an old design to far with tweaks and gimmicks!

Just do not call it 757MAX! I always said that there is something to the 757, if several airlines are clamoring to reopen the line again. While I agree with most, that it is not really suited to the long haul flights, it is great for flights under three hours. Would be great to see it in production again. Also, a freighter version too.

37's do not look like 57's .. The higher gear and notable difference in the fuselage to accommodate the larger engine, is exactly why they have the problem they do with the MAX 8, 9 and 10 if we ever see one

Why not the 757-MAX? Thank you, that will be $30,000.

Some hub to hub and Hawaian flights are served well with the 57-300, there's a reason Airforce Two is a 57, and that they've survived this long, when United had domestic 57's still flying they were the best in the fleet.

Yea.. finally listening to us.. been saying this for years..

Great plane in every sense, just upgrade engines and avionocs..

As a coach passenger, the 757 wins the "Most Awful Aircraft for Long Haul" contest.

Few things are worse for pax and stewardesses than people caught behind the drink cart, when they need the lav :)

While a 757 derived aircraft fits the single aisle market, given it has not been made since 2004 (~ 16 years) are the tooling and such still available? I.e. the 767 is still active on the assembly line, and I would find it hard to not think much of the tooling costs to make a “new” 767-X far more economically viable to Boeing (and the airlines who might pay for it) given all the other potential costs involved…. Call it the Spirit 76X with new wings, engines, and any other weight reductions and just figure out proper length (i.e. short and long versions to cover 737 Max puck-up and not overlap the 787) that makes sense; might even be able to cover Pacific and Atlantic crossings with both versions for more point-to-point routes.

Maybe it's time to change the seating configuration of the 757. If folks are finally tired of being crammed into an airplane then make it 2-2 or 2-3 instead of 3-3, add some extra legroom and charge more. This would make it more flyer friendly and maybe a successful modification. Cheap airfares and crowded planes with unruly passengers might be a thing of the past.

Just make sure the cabin is 8 inches wider, to be a minimal 2 inches better than the competition.

The 757 was/is a beautiful plane, but I will never fly a single-aisle aircraft on a long-haul flight.

Reinventing the 737 worked just fine, didn't it?

If I could do it, I'd force them to bring back the 757, and KILL the 737Max. Kill it dead dead dead!

Good that they have gotten a clue, and are going with something that works already, and people love.

My guess is the 737 Max is going to be re-branded the 797.
They will kick the NMA project down the road and turn their attention to the 777X.

hated the 757... be better to do a 767 with new wing etc... 2 aisles 2-3-2 configuration.. plenty of gas to go
across the pond

They should call at the 757 XL! And the XL moniker can stand for whatever you want- extra long, extra luxurious, extremely livable, extreme luxury, etc!

Quoting this AirlinerWatch article: “...Boeing has been looking at distilling the two-aircraft NMA program into one new 757-style plane, while studying a more modest 767 upgrade, some sources claimed.”

“new 757-style plane” does not equal a reborn 757. Maybe Boeing will develop something new with similar capacity and range, someday, but it won’t be a reborn 757 or necessarily look like the 757.

Actually there’s nothing to see here: “some sources claimed” means rumors and speculation, not actual news.

They already gave us that. It was called the B757-300.

So they haven't learned their lesson from beating the dead horse that was the 737....now they are going to do it again with the 757....as Einstein said Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.
#BeginningOfTheEnd for Boeing

757 always had my vote for worst aircraft