Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
Let's clear this up a bit. The 757 IS great. Best NB ever (over) built. Still well ahead of anything out there produced today. What it lacks is some fuel efficiency. It's not out of the realm to do what I said, it's been done to production aircraft all the time. Lighten the weight where they can to not sacrifice CG (which the 75 has a large regime) and re-engine and then you have something. Boeing didn't even try that. They knew the mjority of the worlds airlines fly the 73 (what is it like 3000 or something ?) so they went all in on stretching it further.
And yes, I was being parochial to Delta. We're still flying ours and don't plan on retiring any of them soon.
the 757 had no orders left when the line was shut down. It has a 20-30k lb disadvantage to the 321N. It simply doesn’t make sense and nobody would order the new version.