Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
Having flown the 757/767 for over a dozen years, and loving it, and now the bus for nearly four, and loving that as well, here's my perspective.
I give the 757/767 an "A". Of course as we all know it is a slowly diminishing category, though with years to go still. All the aforementioned highlights are valid, and the 2L door on the 757 is SO much better for boarding a full flight compared to the 1L door on the 321.
Older A320. B-. We all "love" these, with their crappy screens, old radar, old and headrest-missing manual seats, and deafeningly loud cabin fans. But you're still enjoying flying a bus with a roomy cockpit, tray table etc.
How does the 757 get an A when it has all the stuff you downgraded the older 320 for minus the fans?
I still don’t get the love affair for the 757. The 757 is a Frankenstein fleet with multiple variants/layouts over years of different purchases. It’s our last fleet with manual set speed bugs and don’t forget to hit VNAV again after intermediate level offs. The 757 is like the MD-88’s big brother that scored 4 touchdowns in one game to win the city championships for Polk High. People remember what it did decades ago and kind of look past the fact that it’s selling shoes at the mall now. The 88 dropped out of high school and went straight to working at the mall, but it never pretended to be anything better. The 757 is a great plane at its core, but it’s showing it’s age. It doesn’t live up to the hype anymore.