All Monarch 757's to leave

I suspect that Boeing couldn’t make 757s at production rate that was really profitable and preferred to sell 737s which they could make money on (-900 had been launched)…they fetch a good price now for conversion to freighters apparently

No demand for new Boeing 757s officially resulted in the closure of the production and the A321 are able to do the majority of 757-missions with much better efficiency. Just look how many European 757-operators retired their 757s during the last ten years and replaced them very often with A321s.

The combination 757/767 was a big advantage with nearly identical cockpits and the historical impact is clear. I think that one of the impressive features of the 757 was the ability to operate on very short flights (for example “British Airways Super Shuttle”) as well as from rather short runways (like Innsbruck/Austria) and on long-hauls (with one stop) from the UK to the Caribbean or from Germany with one stop to Thailand (LTU did that I think). The flexibility was amazing and the 757 offered a very high performance which is not needed on trips from Madrid to Las Palmas etc..

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An excellent and most beautiful airliner….weird that Boeing took it out of production….and unique in the way it was launched in parallel with the 767

Monarch ordered the 757 31 years go and introduced the first one in 1983 IIRC. That`s a very long operating-history that a number of today´s airplanes won´t reach. Be happy that Monarch operated the 757 for so long!:)

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Such ashame!