{"id":196161,"date":"2008-05-20T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/20\/boeing-back-to-square-1-on-737-replacement\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T00:33:00","slug":"boeing-back-to-square-1-on-737-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/20\/boeing-back-to-square-1-on-737-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Back to Square 1 on  737 Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the 737 is a good plane, there is a reason that Airbus does better with the A320, it entered service a full 20 years later, and so its basic design is more modern.<\/p>\n<p>To its credit, Boeing has been looking at a replacement for the 737, but now it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-05-19&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/05\/19\/AW_05_19_2008_p28-52880.xml\">back to square 1, as they have disbanded the 737RS (replacement study) group<\/a>(<em>paid subscription required<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The the project did not show the sufficient performance improvements to justify the capital costs of a new airframe.<\/p>\n<p>They were looking at a roughly 10% reduction in costs, and felt that they needed 20-30% cost reduction, so something like incorporating Pratt&#8217;s GTF into existing airframes makes more sense for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the 737 is a good plane, there is a reason that Airbus does better with the A320, it entered service a full 20 years later, and so its basic design is more modern. To its credit, Boeing has been looking at a replacement for the 737, but now it&#8217;s back to square 1, as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}