Originally Posted by
gofastmopar
Your doom and gloom is getting old. The LCAL 752's are true 9hr airframes and do very well in serving their European cities that cannot support a bigger 767.
The times they have to make a fuel stop are few and far between. I did these runs for 12 years and I'm not making this up.
Yup.
But that was also before the brilliant minds decided to use the 757s in IAD which, it turns out, is further from Europe than EWR. (Who knew?) It's not a problem with the airframe but a problem with the route assignments, particularly when it's stretched right to the limit in either EWR or IAD.
Even the press noticed.