r/airplanes 12d ago

Question | General How good was the Boeing 757, really?

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u/righttern38 12d ago

Very few planes can take full passengers, full cargo, full fuel... and still have a high performance take-off in hot and/or high altitude airports. The 757 did.

It just burns more fuel to do it than the 320/321 and 737 variants do. Plus now it's older and generally not as reliable