A Customer Was So Frustrated With American Airlines, They Created A New Jingle [Roundup]

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  1. The 757 will not be revived. Maybe Boeing will clean sheet a new single aisle passenger aircraft with the initial models having more seats than the largest MAX model and shrink them as they phase out the 737. It may be hard to do since in the last years of its production the 757 did not have many new orders.

  3. The 737’s and 757’s were made in the same facility in Renton, WA. They share, basically, the same fuselage. The 757, in my opinion, is a “hot rod”…lots of power, big wing and can haul ass. It’s able to fly into Quito Ecuador (9000ft, MSL), John Wayne, CA (SNA), Chicago Midway (MDW) and Key West (EYW). It can fly from JFK to Pisa (PIS) Italy or Heathrow (LHR) to Filthadelphia (PHL). Airlines would scarf up a “757neo” with updated avionics, systems and engines. Instead, Boeing has stretched the 737 to the limits, hung bigger motors on it and IT IS A DOG! It will get to cruise altitude…eventually. The slogan used to be, “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going”. Now, Airbus is laughing their ass off all the way to the bank.

  4. 757: 43500*2/273000 maximum thrust to MTOW = 0.319
    737: 29300*2/194700 maximum thrust to MTOW = 0.301
    Not a lot of difference using the maximum numbers. Maybe you have been on smaller 757s with the largest engines.

  5. As much as the stupid stuff usually sets my teeth on edge, I must admit the American Airlines jingle is hilarious.

  8. ‪While Donald Trump is one of the most vulgar, despicable, vile shreds of human debris to ever regrettably walk the face of the earth on two legs, proving that a broken clock is still right twice a day, he is correct that the 737-MAX10 is no substitute for the great B757‬. While they technically have the same fuselage width, the equivalences stop there. The 757 always feels roomier to me (at least in the pointy end of the plane where I almost always fly), and its performance metrics are superior. I’d love to see a MoM plane back on the books again at Boeing, whether it is the 797 or the 757X. Clean sheet is probably a better approach given changes in technology and engineering since the 757 was first designed, but I’ll happily take an updated 757 if that’s what Boeing comes out with. Stretching a 60 year old design (737 was envisioned in 1964) another 20-40 feet just doesn’t cut it any longer.

  9. There’s no 757 max/neo for the same reason Boeing quit developing the NMA.

    The engines manufacturers don’t make a mid size ~40lbf thrust engine that is economical enough.

  10. 757 resale value is quite low – heavily driven by M$ on those albatross RB211-535 engines (and to a lesser extent, the PW2037/2040 alternate engine – which is also on C-17).

    It is no wonder that Paul Allen dumped this airplane on Trump before $/fh escalated. Fuselage cycles/hours on this airplane are relatively low – but having it sit for.over four years, with aging fleet ADs mounting – made it a handful.

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