{"id":183817,"date":"2025-03-08T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-boeing-757-used-transatlantic-flights\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:00:13","slug":"why-is-the-boeing-757-still-used-for-transatlantic-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=183817","title":{"rendered":"Why Is The Boeing 757 Still Used for Transatlantic Flights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three airlines are set to fly         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"76754\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 757<\/span><\/span> aircraft on transatlantic routes this year:         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span>,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255478\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/icelandair\/\"  >Icelandair<\/a><\/span>, and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span>. Delta is         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2031996\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-boeing-757-operators\/\" >the world&#8217;s largest operator of the passenger variants of the Boeing 757<\/a><\/span>, while United is the second largest. All transatlantic flights scheduled for 2025 are         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739377\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/757-200\/\"  >Boeing 757-200<\/a><\/span> variants, with no 757-300s scheduled to make the crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft remains economically viable for some transatlantic routes even as it is progressively replaced by aircraft like the A321XLR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1379,13240,565,1478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-757","category-commercial-aviation","category-delta-air-lines","category-transatlanic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183818,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183817\/revisions\/183818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}