Originally Posted by
scambo1
Simple math says 3200 divided by 8 miles a minute gives it a 6+40 range to empty tanks. That sound pretty domestic plus canada, AK, HI, central Am to me.
As far as comfort goes, we fly pax to europe in the 757 already. I flew it once on a 757 and it was painful, very painful, but it did beat swimming there.
I'm pretty sure I saw something in one of the recent flight ops messages that said we were pulling the 75ERs off of the transatlantic ops because they weren't happy with them...although it might just be because we've been canceling service to most of the cities we used it on. That frees up some of our newest 757s for transcon stuff. I'm pretty sure we'll still be flying 757 transcons long after any 737-900s start showing up.