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This has very little to do with that. McDonnel Douglass had no equivalent to the 757 really either. (The MD-11 was a suitable replacement for the 767, if you wa
by Aloha 7y ago
This has very little to do with that. McDonnel Douglass had no equivalent to the 757 really either. (The MD-11 was a suitable replacement for the 767, if you wanted a 3-hole aircraft)
I'm absolutely certain that if Boeing was making a 757NG like aircraft, United would have bought those. When it comes down to it, Boeing has no direct replacement for the 757. Airbus does, so United bought airbus.
- gumby 7y agoBut I feel the consolidation, and the overweight in the result of military purchases, led to Boeing permitting such a hole in their commercial lineup.
- Aloha 7y agoI dont think thats really rational either. Look at the sales figured for the 757 - sales were either flat or very slow from 2001 onward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_757#Orders_and_deliveries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_757#Orders_and_deliveri... Boeing stopped making the plane because the situations that led to its existence evaporated, and it looked as if there would never be more demand again, and the world seemed to be trending to 737 size aircraft in ever increasing numbers.
- pdx_flyer 7y agoIf Boeing had wanted to play ball on an NMA aircraft, United definitely would have purchased them. Instead they abandoned their smaller 787 variant and didn't pursue NMA at all, leaving the door wide open for Airbus.
- SenHeng 7y agoNMA? Not-Made-in-America? Something-Medium-Aircraft?
- detaro 7y agoI assume "New-Midsize-Aircraft", which is the name under which Boing discusses concepts for a new series of planes.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoInstead they abandoned their smaller 787 variant They tried with the 787-3 and that simply didn't sell.