Gonzalo From Chile, joined Aug 2005, 1673 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 4226 times:
Hello all... I did a search but there is only old and very unreliable information about this out there....can you tell me who is right now the biggest operator of Boeing 757's ? And, if you know, for how long this type will be active with each operator ?
( From the dozens of threads here re AA I guess they are among the top, but only for a short time with the arrival of new planes ?? )
1337Delta764 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 5753 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (2 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 4155 times:
Currently, the largest operator is DL, with 167 757s in the fleet. AA with 102 757s is actually third, behind UA who has 154 757s in its fleet. Even if the US/AA merger gets approved, AA will still be third with 126 757s.
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United1 From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5337 posts, RR: 8 Reply 3, posted (2 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 4158 times:
Quoting Gonzalo (Thread starter): Hello all... I did a search but there is only old and very unreliable information about this out there....can you tell me who is right now the biggest operator of Boeing 757's ?
DL is the largest with around 167
UA comes in second with 154
AA is in 3rd with 102 (AA+US they have a total of 126)
Both DL and UA are starting to replace their fleets with 737-900ERs and AA is replacing theirs with the A321-200. I'm not sure when they plan on phasing out the last 757 but some of them are actually fairly new so there is no real rush.
max550 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 1111 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (2 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 4144 times:
According to airfleets.net DL has the most while AA is 3rd with 102. The active 757 fleet will quickly start shrinking in the next few years since all three of the big airlines have ordered partial replacements for the 757's.
1337Delta764 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 5753 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (2 months 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 4097 times:
Note that at one point AA was once the largest 757 operator until it unloaded the ex-TWA 757s, most of which were picked up by DL. Then when the DL/NW and UA/CO mergers occurred, AA fell to third largest.
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So, considering UA/CO and AA/US will be progressively phasing out the 757's, can we expect the biggest operator in the future will be among some of the non-pax operators ( FedEx/UPS/DHL ) ?
American 767 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 3320 posts, RR: 14 Reply 8, posted (2 months 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 3794 times:
Now what is interesting is asking ourselves what is or was the largest NON US operator of the type, I think (and I'm even sure) it was BA. At one point, during the 90s, they had over 30 757s (if not as many as 40) some of which were used on Shuttle flights within the UK. 30 sounds like nothing, but it is not nothing if you exclude US operators and compare with operators from the rest of the world.
Not only BA was always the largest non US operator of the type, it was also one of the two launch customers (with Eastern) of the 757.
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mjoelnir From Iceland, joined Feb 2013, 352 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (2 months 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 3710 times:
Interesting also is that around 50 airlines are still operating B 757, most apart of the American airlines just a few.
there are still about 860 of 1049 build in use.
If we take away the 5 biggest airlines using the B 757 for passenger traffic, all in the USA, together 446 frames, that still leaves about 415 in use all over the world.
VC10er From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 2424 posts, RR: 9 Reply 10, posted (2 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 3586 times:
Why didn't it catch on with Chinese or other Asian carriers? I recall when VARIG had 2, yet it seemed like a perfect ac for South America (to me) vs flying an MD-11 from Manaus to Rio, or Sao Paulo to Chile?
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AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18832 posts, RR: 64 Reply 11, posted (2 months 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 3534 times:
Quoting VC10er (Reply 10): Why didn't it catch on with Chinese or other Asian carriers?
SQ ordered some. But as we discussed in relation to the Chinese in another thread, the Chinese market really didn't open to outsiders until only very recently. When the 757 was in its order book heyday, China was still rather undeveloped economically. Nixon only landed in China in 1972, not really that long ago.
And in the case of the 757, the tendency of the type to climb like a rocket !!!
I'm surprised by the high number of active frames, I thought ( for whatever reason that I can not explain ) the active 757's around the world were less than a half of the actual number.... This time being wrong is so nice !!
Wow! Seems like just yesterday we had a "first 757 for Fed-ex" pic and at the time they were trying their best to source them. I hadn't realized their fleet had grown so quickly.
lightsaber From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 10661 posts, RR: 100 Reply 16, posted (2 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2819 times:
Quoting Gonzalo (Reply 7): So, considering UA/CO and AA/US will be progressively phasing out the 757's, can we expect the biggest operator in the future will be among some of the non-pax operators ( FedEx/UPS/DHL ) ?
For FedEx is gaining 752s while everyone else will be retiring theirs. Who will be the largest all depends on the UPS/FedEx buying schedule.
Quoting United1 (Reply 3): Both DL and UA are starting to replace their fleets with 737-900ERs and AA is replacing theirs with the A321-200.
Isn't US already the largest operator of the A321? I suspect US/AA will quickly gain that title if US doesn't have it already. Either way, the number of 752s in passenger service will drop quickly over the next 5 years.
sweair From Sweden, joined Nov 2011, 1550 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (2 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 2590 times:
The last ER models will be hard to replace for many airlines. The neo and max still wont come close enough on hot and high, long and thin.
How will these airlines do as there will come a day when the metal is just too old and worn. To abuse a small WB is an expensive way to replace these planes?!
ushermittwoch From Germany, joined Jan 2004, 2888 posts, RR: 18 Reply 22, posted (2 months 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 2340 times:
No idea where you got the idea from that DL is the only 753 operator.
Condor operates 13 frames alone making them a close third.
United is actually the operator with the most 753s. 21 total.
I meant those flying TATL routes, 4100nm range ETOPS certified.
25 viasa: Condor and United operates 75T (thats the Boeing 757-300 with Winglets), Delta is the only operator of the Boeing 757-300 without Winglets (the 753).
27 sweair: Condor flies to the canaries I have seen on flight radar. Must be decent economics with the 753 despite its age? They can cram close to 260 seats on t
28 ushermittwoch: Gotcha. That is of course correct.
29 SQ22: 265, thereof 32 Premium Y. http://www.condor.com/de/unternehmen/unsere-flotte.jsp
30 b2319: Shanghai Airlines received the last ever 757 built, B-2876. Whilst I've flown a few FM 757s, I've not flown on this one yet. Certainly don't rule out
31 jumpjets: At one point they had 56 in the fleet. I flew them quite often and BA used them v flexibly and I certainly had them on flights ranging from short hop
32 Viscount724: Bilateral restrictions in Asia often included frequency restrictions which made widebodies more economic on many routes. And if one carrier operated
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