Originally Posted by
Duck
Thanks for sharing this bit of info. I always wonder who the brain child of this strategy was.
My last DH to the islands left many blocked [empty] seats, many bags, and many full fare folks who were left behind to accommodate the 30,000 foot crossing, APU burning the whole way, crappy ride in the guppy.
CAL wasn't the pioneer in using the 757 transatlantic. They just built it to a scale that hadn't been done before, due to the EWR hub and not having enough widebodies in their fleet. The used what the had available.
The European carriers were doing it years before CAL's first flight in 1995. American did JFK-MAN on a 757 in 1995 too.
Airliners.net forum: 757 Transatlantic History