I thought the B733/4/5's had much more available excess thrust than their Airbus equivalents and thus would outclimb them. In my terribly limited experience the 733's with 22k engines certainly seem to have a lot of grunt. I was led to believe that only the original DC9's were even better hooligan machines...
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