A little birdie told me

[lowtimedriver]

that their respective airline will be looking for a 57 replacement from Boeing. Boeing will probably respond with a 250 seat 37.:laugh:

 

[Data]

It'll be called the 737-1000 in honor of the CRJ-1000!

 

[Whine Lover]

" Within Boeing, the 215-seat, 3,200 nautical miles (5,930 km) range 737-900ER is regarded as the closest aircraft in production to the 757-200.
In 2011, Boeing officials stated that the manufacturer had no plans to develop a dedicated 200-seat airliner to replace its largest narrow-body aircraft. ( 757 ) "


Effectively, it's been done already....


YKW

 

[Sky Jet]

I have flown the -900ER and can assure you that it is not the airplane that the 757 is. However, it is better than the A321 and as such Boeing feels no need to build a new airframe.

 

[pilotyip]

It is the 737-Max, ATW says Boeing has 1000 orders on hand for it. SWA being the lead customer

 

[Saluki Dawg]

Boeing just this week said that they are in fact studying a 757 replacement or possibly a 757 Next Gen. This appears to be a complete 180 to what they said even just a year ago. I don't have the article unfortunately, but they apparently have interest from several US Airlines to develop a 757 replacement, so it looks like this may get enough traction this time to finally get off the ground. I suspect that now that the 787 is finally finished that Boeing is finally able to start several projects that have taken a backseat to the 787.

 

[Flyby1206]

Boeing just this week said that they are in fact studying a 757 replacement or possibly a 757 Next Gen. This appears to be a complete 180 to what they said even just a year ago. I don't have the article unfortunately, but they apparently have interest from several US Airlines to develop a 757 replacement, so it looks like this may get enough traction this time to finally get off the ground. I suspect that now that the 787 is finally finished that Boeing is finally able to start several projects that have taken a backseat to the 787.

Found this:

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing-confirms-long-haul-757-replacement-study-371163/

Boeing chief executive Jim McNerney confirms a replacement for the long-haul 757-200 market segment is being studied internally, adding potentially a new layer to the 737 Max concept.
The 757-200 ceased production in 2004, and was replaced on domestic routes largely by either the 737-900ER or the Airbus A321.
But US carriers have also introduced the 757-200 on long-haul routes, flying between East Coast cities and Europe and West Coast cities and Hawaii.
That has created a potential gap in the market, with US Airways complaining that the A321neo will lack the range to reach Europe from its Philadelphia hub and perhaps even Honolulu from its Phoenix hub.
"I think we're trying to think through exactly how to fill that market," McNerney told analysts on 25 April during a first quarter earnings call.
"The largest part of that [757-200 replacement] segment is going to be filled by the larger versions of the narrowbody [737 Max]," he says. "But there's some product planning we have yet to do, and we'll announce that in due course."
The remarks echo McNerney's statement about a 757 replacement last May. Speaking to analysts at last year's Boeing "investor day", McNerney explained the company's focus was on replacing the "heart" of the narrowbody market formed by the 737-700 and -800.
At the time, Boeing was still considering an all-new narrowbody, and McNerney suggested it could stretch that aircraft for the 757 replacement market or develop a shortened version of the 787.
Though Boeing resisted the re-engined 737 concept for several years, the airframer has tallied more than 300 firm orders for the CFM Internatinal Leap-1B 737 Max since launching the programme late last year.
McNerney re-affirmed that Boeing remains on schedule to complete firm configuration of the 737 Max series in 2013.

 

[a320drivr]

Just put the current airframe back into production with a better interior, avionics, and new engines. Winglets of course.

 

[JetMonkey]

Just put the current airframe back into production with a better interior, avionics, and new engines. Winglets of course.

And get rid of the yoke.

 

[pilotyip]

And get rid of the yoke.

followed by the next step of getting rid of the pilots

 

[jetflier]

The 757 is the leader in that size class, and no other airframe can match it's performance.

It does keep the widebody FA's off the crew due to the narrow isles.

 

[waveflyer]

followed by the next step of getting rid of the pilots

Nice flame yip-

I agree, get rid of the yoke- not the pilots.

 

[pilotyip]

Nice flame yip-

I agree, get rid of the yoke- not the pilots.

Not flame, but a joke like the one about the future crews of a dog and a single pilot. Dog's job, bite the pilot if he touches anything, pilot's job, feed the dog.

 

[TMMT]

The deciding factor for going UAV in the airline industry will be the customers, not management.

I can see the military going mostly UAV, even see the cargo industry going UAV once the technology has evolved sufficiently.

But it will be a loooong while before 200 random passengers climb aboard a JET-A powered metal tube, with no pilot. Or the pilot sitting in some basement of the airline HQ 1,000 miles away. Staring at a TV screen.

The airline industry will be the last to embrace UAV's and only after the flying public does first.

 

[tomgoodman]

But it will be a loooong while before 200 random passengers climb aboard a JET-A powered metal tube, with no pilot. Or the pilot sitting in some basement of the airline HQ 1,000 miles away.

Sure, if you tell them. But if you keep the cockpit door locked, the pax will assume that somebody is in there. Have a few actors in uniform stroll about the terminal, like characters at Disneyland, to enhance the illusion.