{"id":400777,"date":"2026-04-07T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-757-comeback-luxury-airline\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:00:17","slug":"not-so-fast-how-the-boeing-757-made-a-comeback-at-this-luxury-airline-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=400777","title":{"rendered":"Not So Fast: How The Boeing 757 Made A Comeback At This Luxury Airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255799\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/la-compagnie\/\"  >La Compagnie<\/a><\/span> is an extremely fascinating and functionally unique carrier, and its decision to bring back the Boeing 757 has certainly made headlines. However, it is also important to note that this is not a complete strategic reversal by the operator. We better understand it as a temporary retooling of a highly specialized tool that still solves a very specific operational problem. La Compagnie launched its first commercial service in July 2014, using a business class-only 757-200 on the route from Paris to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). It then followed a fairly standard Airbus A321neo modernization plan in 2019. This was fairly in line with industry retirement trends for the 757.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft is surprisingly rejoining the airline&#8217;s fleet.<\/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":[396,1379,15298,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-757","category-la-compagnie","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400777","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=400777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400779,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400777\/revisions\/400779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}