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The A321 is a great airframe. It’s not going to be a great airframe across the pond. Airbus has actually sold 1600 hundred or so total A321’s not 3700. They do have orders and options for around 3700 counting the 1600 already sold. The 757 is marginal across the pound and the 321 will be even more challenged. It is fun however listening to the UAL guys racing each other into Gander to see who can get gas first when all their 757’s are making a fuel stop. The Canadians will make some money off the A321.

Your take on it. As someone who has flown that airplane to the limit of it's capability, all over the world, over 15 years, no, I don't agree. Tired of hearing how the 321 just outpaces the 75. When pushed, the design limitations of the 321 are glaring and obvious. It simply will never be its equal. Everything else is just a compromise. But isn't that where we are now? Ramp staffing, MX, Technology, it's all algorithms and customer feedback to find that perfect dot. The days of carrying fat and gas are over. The 757 represents the pinnacle of that bygone philosophy. Overbuilt to take whatever the world throws at it. Pretty nice if you are a pilot.

I'll quote this again. Just for fun.

They already are crossing the Atlantic in them.

No one here disagrees about the performance of the 321 compared to the 757. It's just the closest thing produced today comparable to the 757. With the further enhancements it's gotten closer and closer, thus the massive sales numbers.

I loved flying the 757 and hate so much that Boeing shut down that line, but for the reasons that you stated, it's not a thing anymore.

When you are flying that dot on the flight director on the 321, you are actualizing some accountants wet dream. Climbing over a line of weather, landing on a short runway max brakes, high and hot performance, ETOPS redundancy, kicking over a huge rudder in a crosswind, low speed stability, over-winged at altitude when you hit mountain wave... that's my idea of a good time.

In a old jet.

That's narrow.

And no speed tapes to show you if you're over winged.

And just 1 JS.

2 JS's in the TWA birds. And always 2 extra FA seats. The wings are good into the mid-50's. That was before they added the winglets. It's the motors/pressure diff. that limit the altitude. The Rolls are better, I hear...never flew them on that jet. Yeah, it's old now.

The CSeries really took the best of both worlds. Moved it all forward.

Pratt has a new GTF engine coming out in 2020, and if Airbus does the work, with a new wing, and new materials in key areas, they could exceed the 757. The technology is mature enough to get there, where it wasn't just a few years ago, and by all indication, Airbus is already working on doing that.