Originally Posted by gloopy

Exactly. The 75 is as revered as it is because of its wing and engines and that's it. Its tube isn't anything special at all. The only reason a re-winged and re-engined 757 would make sense to anyone its because BA could save some money keeping the same POS tube yet still have to do the lion's share of the R&D for the harder and more expensive parts of it anyway, and then when they're done they'd still be half a step behind.

IOW its hardly the pent up panacea many are nostalgically pining over.