Originally Posted by
Wickerbill
Tdracer makes a good point regarding turn times, but in almost every other respect the aircraft performance and economics are great. The 300 died with the entire 757 line in the depressed airline economics following 9/11. Not because companies, hated it; they weren't buying anything at the time. A bit like the next few years...
While it's true that 9/11 killed the market for just about everything, Boeing didn't pull the plug on the 757 until 2004, at which time the market in general was rebounding. Even with a rebounding market, they couldn't sell 757s because nearly everyone was picking the far less expensive 737NG instead - in fact the NG was selling like the proverbial hot cakes. A big part of the decision to kill the 757 was because all that factory space that was devoted to building one or two 757s per month could instead be used to build another 10 or 20 more profitable 737s per month.