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How long will it continue to serve and what plans for a replacement airplane are in place?
How long will it continue to serve and what plans for a replacement airplane are in place?
Wow! Forty years for the 757. Hard to believe. Seems so recent that I was ORD ATC and working the day the first one flown by an airline, can’t remember which, made its first revenue flight off ORD. There were Boeing and the airline representatives in the tower and Tracon to watch its departure. About 20 miles out it had to shut down an engine and return. Darn. But…it went on to have many happy years of success.
Not really - just modified the 737 a long way.
Southwest Airlines made a strategic error a while back - wanted commonality with existing fleet instead of looking to the future.
I think SWA would have done better with the 757-100 design. (Launch customers for 757 wanted more capacity so the -200 was produced.)
I’ve got about 5000hrs in those beauties and a finer airplane has yet to be made. The technology interface requires the pilot to be “in the loop”, no set it, forget it and not be actively participating in the flight! Also at the time (2000+=), it was the only airline airplane that could handle Eagle Vail, CO
I’ve thought the same thing, John. New avionics, too. Boeing would be so far ahead of where they are now, given the MAX debacle.
That makes sense to me, but there might be a reason why Boeing isn’t doing it. What they are calling the New Midsize Aircraft is most probably going to be a clean-sheet design. Just this month Boeing said it wouldn’t pursue the NMA until newer technology engines were available.
The sports car of the airliners. Also flew them into and out of Eagle Vail, Co.
I have thousands of hours in this marvelous jet. Boeing might not be in such a funk if they would have continued to build it.
The Atari Ferrari.
Flew my first of many hours on the B757-236 from Boeing Field, 3Feb1983 Boeing Instructor pilot Capt Doc Dockins. After years on the B737-236 this was a magnificent advance in performance, a true GP airplane. Remember taking a CAA air controller for an experience flight when he remarked we had more computer capacity than his control tower. The 757 was surpassed in my experience only by the splendid B747-400, both now flown into history, recorded in the fading log books of elderly airline pilots…