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Old Dec 3, 2019 | 5:03 pm
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Originally Posted by EWR764
With 2024-beyond deliveries, it's fair to assume that these are the longhaul 757 replacement. The 321XLR can cover all of the 757 missions in the system, save for LIH/KOA-DEN, so it will be interesting to see what happens there.

Big win for Airbus, and I'm curious to see if this has any impact on the A359 orders.

What A359 orders?

One blogger claims UA prefers Boeing wide bodies. Supposedly Smisek had this preference and apparently they still think that way.
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