Thread: A300 vs. B757
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Old 03-04-2016 | 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Radioactive
Thanks. I think that UPS has them on all their 767s. Any plans to put them on your 757s?
Per our SVP, winglets are not in the cards. Our airframes don't fly near the amount of hours a passengers carrier flys. The break even point for cost is way too high to make the retrofit worth it. He gave a specific number of hours the plane had to fly to make it worth it, but I don't remember exactly what that figure was. (Much higher than you would think, something like 15 hours of block a day). On top of that they are already looking to replace the older 757 airframes, and it wouldn't make sense to put winglets on a plane that will be going to the desert soon anyway.
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