Why the Obvious Choice for a Boeing 757 Replacement Isn't So Obvious

I would like to know why Boeing didn’t have a replacement ready when the 757 stopped being produced. I realize commercial planes are not consumer goods, but 2004 still seems like a long time ago. Thus I imagine having a 757 replacement sooner was the plan, so what derailed it?

The US population is about 4% of the worldwide population.<p>Anybody who thinks that the aviation industry does or doesn’t do anything significantly different because of something that touches 4% for 4 years is probably in the market for some Ilyushin 96’s.

So rent the A321 instead of buying them? The tariffs apply to goods not services.

Obvious choice is to have a daughter company outside of the us that has airbus planes and flies the routes desired.

&gt; Since, as you might imagine, the planes themselves are an airline&#x27;s biggest expenditure...<p>Is that true?<p>I&#x27;d have expected that, over the course of the life of a plane, the costs to fuel, maintain, or pay the humans associated with it&#x27;s flights would be bigger than the initial purchase cost.<p>Edit: ChatGPT thinks fuel is the biggest expense at 2-3x the original purchase price over the life of the aircraft.

The domestic passenger airline industry in the US is already in trouble. With the drop in travel thanks to the administration&#x27;s antics and tariffs on foreign goods, expect serious turbulence.