@@JUVI9596 Reality. There hasn’t been a great aircraft coming out of Boeing this entire century so far. Lockheed needs to design and manufacturer as it did in the 70s.
The production of the Boeing 757 ended in 2004. This is an aircraft that will be retired as time goes on. Of course, no airlines want to buy an outdated aircraft that is not in production! This should be obvious! The Airbus A321XLR is a brand new aircraft something Boeing lacks.
The 321XLR is basically a 320 with longer fuselage, new engines, and more range. It dates back to 1987 (first flight) or March 1988 (in service with AF).
The 321XLR with its four-wheel MLG (main-landing-gear), small wing and flaps, is no realistic replacement for the 757/200. At least not on those routes were the 757 excels, namely in MR/LR out of short runways or air-density/obstacle critical airports. They may be adequate for LR routes to secondary hubs or major hubs during the low season, competing with the 350 and 767/787s. Iberia is planning to use it on trans-atlantic routes, but based on Europe’s most critical hub (performance wise) will prove a challenge. So they may end up using it as an XLR in the winter-season, say to JFK, and on MD-range high-density routes in the summer schedules, involving a change of cabin configuration at every season change.
@@adrianking6355 A320s with eight-wheeled main landing-gear? I think that's isn't feasible, otherwise Airbus would have it incorporated on their newest version, the A321XLR. They are stuck with four tiny four wheels, which affect their braking capacity, critical at aborted take-offs on hot & high airports. Madrid in the summer goes above 40ºC and its elevation exceeds 2,000 ft.
US airlines hung onto their 757s mainly because they are able to operate in & out of small airports in Hawaii and go nonstop as far as Texas or Georgia. The XLR will not be able to cover that niche. For Iberia any XLR routes from their hub in Madrid will be a no-go in the summer season. Back in the old days their DC-9s had to stop at Sevilla for refueling, and the early 747 at Santiago on the JFK route, for the very same reason. Nowadays, those stops are unacceptable for the traveling public.
If they can get into Bristol Airport with it's short runway and they built quad landing gear for Indian Airlines to get in to rough short airstrips they can if needed
How do some of you who say they won't step into a certain aircraft yet the airlines don't post what will be flying until like a day to travel? Unless you are "walk in" passengers, you will only know the plane once you see it after check-in 😮
Yeah that can be true if every airlines to Says "NO" to BOEING 757 and 767 because both 757 and 767 will getting older too like BOEING 747. But my complaint is, Indonesian flag carrier/Indonesia's National airline to Says "NO" to BOEING 737 MAX for Indonesia and beg for the new AIRBUS A321xlr to replacing all of the BOEING 737 from Garuda Indonesia.
I doubt that Boeing can produce and certify a new aircraft like the 797 in the current state it is. But otherwise, the 797 would come about 10 years to late.
