Originally Posted by
cova
CO flew this route, EWR-MUC, with a DC-10 - and discontinued it. They also discontinued the EWR-DUS route.
They now have EWR-TXL, EWR-CGN, EWR-HAM, along with the standard EWR-FRA route. CGN is not doing that well. I do not see CO bringing back EWR-MUC anytime soon. Maybe the dynamics have changed - but I see Eastern Europe first.
Can the 757 make it to MUC? It is only 70 miles further than TXL, so I'd like to think so, but I also know that most of the Germany 757 routes are running very close to the edge of where they can.
Pretty much everything in Eastern Europe would require 76x or 777 for the range. The 757 just can't make it. The only way to do that would be to pull a/c off of routes like BRU, and that just got the 777 upgrade, so it is losing its 767, but not for a 757.