Originally Posted by
Peacock
767 is still in production. How about a 767 MAX?
New engines, maybe new wing. Avoid costs of composite fuselage and clean sheet designs. You wind up with a slightly longer range more efficient 767 replacement, and you keep selling them for cargo.
There was mention a while ago that they were thinking about it. They already have a version of the 787 engine configured for bleed air extraction for the 747-8, although I don't know how the sizes work out as far as fitment etc and they lost more efficiency than they anticipated by taking bleed air. As it is now, they refuse to take orders for 767s in passenger configuration. It seems they need to decide either to offer new passenger configuration birds or make the NMA.