Originally Posted by
keesje
Lots of capacity made the 757 & 767 popular among leisure operators in Europe and US too.
If 4000NM/TATL is not required, capacity at low cost is. The recent announced 101MTOW could be used to boost capacity by a few rows rather than extending range.
It might be a much bigger market segment than >4000NM with less than 200 seats or cargo flights.
I believe it is. There are so many markets such as Australian trunk routes, major European runs, up and down the Far East cities, and not to mention USA domestics, where the available aircraft increasingly either have far too much range (widebodies) or do not offer sufficient capacity, leading to excessive frequency and clogging of airways and airports, with aircraft smaller than used 40 years ago. I get all the stuff about frequency, but not where you have flights from a carrier 10 minutes apart. In any event, fare policy increasingly makes any flexibility between frequent departures unduly expensive.