![]() ![]() The 757 is long gone, and these new A321 NEO aircraft are selling like hotcakes all over the world. The Boeing 757 was much better suited for the US airline market at that time.Ģ0 years later, and look where we are now. ![]() But here in the US (and the rest of the world), it just didn’t have the performance needed for difficult missions such as flying westbound Transcon US routes into strong headwinds without payload restrictions, and flying out of hot and high airports such as Denver and Salt Lake City. There were no airlines in the US interested in it other than USAirways, and the only place that it seemed to get any traction at all was with the airlines in Europe needing an aircraft of this size.įor medium density intra-European routes, it seemed to be the perfect aircraft that fit the gap between 737/ A320 and larger aircraft such as 767 and A330. I remember vividly when it first came out in 1994, because it seemed to be a flop right from the start due to an apparent lack of demand – at least outside of Europe. The story of the Airbus A321 has been quite interesting to me. Technical side profile line drawing of an Airbus A321 NEO with LEAP 1A engines ![]()
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