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There has already been a narrow-body aircraft that can fly transatlantic routes for quite some time: the Boeing 757. In fact, American operated 177 of them unti

by rob74 1y ago

There has already been a narrow-body aircraft that can fly transatlantic routes for quite some time: the Boeing 757. In fact, American operated 177 of them until they were retired early in 2020 due to Covid (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet; video of a Dublin-Philadelphia flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1OIdiKgqrA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1OIdiKgqrA), and now intends to use the A321 XLR for the same role.

joezydeco 1y ago
United inherited a bunch of long-range 757s with the Continental merger. I flew one Newark-Stuttgart one summer. United saw it as a cheaper way to fly transatlantic with a smaller crew. Problem was that the aircraft couldn't make it back to the US on a single tank of fuel if the jet stream was too strong. Which happened a lot. So we got a nice detour to Goose Bay for refueling and nearly missed our connection. The regulars joked that YYR was the new United hub on the east coast. I don't think UA does this much anymore. Maybe COVID killed that route too.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
  My favorite plane to fly on, was the 767, but that's been gone for a long time.
  - nunez 1y ago
    UAL still flies the 763 for international missions
profile53 1y ago
Did you use an LLM to write this post? The Wikipedia link is hallucinated
- potato3732842 1y ago
  >Did you use an LLM to write this post? The Wikipedia link is hallucinated An erroneous ; was added. Probably not LLM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet
- benjojo12 1y ago
  It's not hallucinated, there is just a extra ; at the end of the link
- erikig 1y ago
  There's an errant semicolon in the URL, the correct URL should be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet
- rconti 1y ago
  The semicolon got added to the hyperlink rather than being a separate part of the text. A human reading this text should have been able to figure this out, while a machine might struggle, so I'm suspicious...
ta1243 1y ago
I took a narrow body 757 form Paris to Newark back in 2010. Airline long since defunct. BA used to operate a business-only A318 from New York to London from 2009 until covid too (due to length of City runway had to stop at Shannon on the way to New York)
- sleepyguy 1y ago
  BA removed a lot of seats from that plane. That is the only way they could do it.
nunez 1y ago
fuel burn, and CASM by proxy, on the a321xlr and 7m10 are much better though many pilots love the takeoff performance of the 757. check out how they compare here: https://www.aviatorjoe.net/go/compare/737_MAX_10/757-200/ https://www.aviatorjoe.net/go/compare/737_MAX_10/757-200/ the 757 was the best narrow-body long-haul capable jet of the time (and it was the only one of its type that could fly LGA) but more fuel-efficient engines will do to it what the 787 did to the 747.

by rob74 1y ago

joezydeco 1y ago

United inherited a bunch of long-range 757s with the Continental merger. I flew one Newark-Stuttgart one summer. United saw it as a cheaper way to fly transatlantic with a smaller crew. Problem was that the aircraft couldn't make it back to the US on a single tank of fuel if the jet stream was too strong. Which happened a lot. So we got a nice detour to Goose Bay for refueling and nearly missed our connection. The regulars joked that YYR was the new United hub on the east coast. I don't think UA does this much anymore. Maybe COVID killed that route too.

ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
My favorite plane to fly on, was the 767, but that's been gone for a long time.
- nunez 1y ago
  UAL still flies the 763 for international missions

profile53 1y ago

Did you use an LLM to write this post? The Wikipedia link is hallucinated

potato3732842 1y ago
>Did you use an LLM to write this post? The Wikipedia link is hallucinated An erroneous ; was added. Probably not LLM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet
benjojo12 1y ago
It's not hallucinated, there is just a extra ; at the end of the link
erikig 1y ago
There's an errant semicolon in the URL, the correct URL should be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_fleet
rconti 1y ago
The semicolon got added to the hyperlink rather than being a separate part of the text. A human reading this text should have been able to figure this out, while a machine might struggle, so I'm suspicious...

ta1243 1y ago

I took a narrow body 757 form Paris to Newark back in 2010. Airline long since defunct. BA used to operate a business-only A318 from New York to London from 2009 until covid too (due to length of City runway had to stop at Shannon on the way to New York)

sleepyguy 1y ago
BA removed a lot of seats from that plane. That is the only way they could do it.

nunez 1y ago

fuel burn, and CASM by proxy, on the a321xlr and 7m10 are much better though many pilots love the takeoff performance of the 757. check out how they compare here: https://www.aviatorjoe.net/go/compare/737_MAX_10/757-200/ https://www.aviatorjoe.net/go/compare/737_MAX_10/757-200/ the 757 was the best narrow-body long-haul capable jet of the time (and it was the only one of its type that could fly LGA) but more fuel-efficient engines will do to it what the 787 did to the 747.