<i>"Boeing’s 757, the world’s longest single-aisle airliner with around 200 seats and a range in excess of 4,000 miles, has been plying the Atlantic for years</i>"<p>Yeah, and it's a mistake. Never fly a 757 westbound, especially from continental Europe. I've been delayed in Goose Bay, Canada for refueling a few times because of a heavy jet stream. Any connections less than 2 hours will be blown to smithereens.<p>Here's the latest one, 9 hours ago. These poor saps aren't making <i>any</i> connections today.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AirlineFlyer/status/776488074633179137" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/AirlineFlyer/status/776488074633179137</a><p>The 737MAX looks like an identically bad bet.
737s have already flown transatlantic flights; SAS used to run the oil-company special, a direct service, all business-class, on a 737 from Stavanger (Norway) to Houston (United States).<p>Similarly, British Airways still flies between London City airport and New York/JFK on an Airbus A318, also all business-class.<p>(and though the headline only mentions the 737, the article correctly points out that Airbus is aiming for this market too, with a planned long-range version of the A321neo)