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Re:United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Bo... by Aloha on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:50AM (#21703839)
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.

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Re:United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Bo... by pdx_flyer on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:30PM (#21705287)
If 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.
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Re:United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Bo... by inferiorhuman on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:46PM (#21709545)
Instead they abandoned their smaller 787 variant

They tried with the 787-3 and that simply didn't sell.

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Re:United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Bo... by SenHeng on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:47PM (#21708412)
NMA? Not-Made-in-America? Something-Medium-Aircraft?
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Re:United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Bo... by detaro on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:53PM (#21708452)
I assume "New-Midsize-Aircraft", which is the name under which Boing discusses concepts for a new series of planes.
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Re:United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Bo... by gumby on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:13PM (#21704137)
But I feel the consolidation, and the overweight in the result of military purchases, led to Boeing permitting such a hole in their commercial lineup.
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Re:United orders 50 new Airbus long-range jets to replace Bo... by Aloha on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:26PM (#21704365)
I 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_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.

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