SCANDIC
Good, keep it for a couple more years, even though they are knocking on in age and they do guzzle a bit more fuel than others, I think their mad getting rid of them.
I don't doubt your love-affair with with the 757 (especially ones with the "spotty M" logo), but, like everything else in life it has surrendered to progress. Have you still got a 10 year old mobile phone? I doubt it - there can't be many dinosaurs like me left (mine has just given up after 14 years service!!!).
At the time the decision to get rid (of the 757s) was made oil cost more than double what it does today, and the 757 guzzles more of it than modern aircraft. For Monarch to survive it had to go - Thomson and Thomas Cook have made the same decision.
I think it's time to "get over it" and move on. There's help from specialists out there if the wrench proves too strong
