Royal Canadian Airlines | Boeing 757-200 | 2018

The 757 was introduced back in 1981 but Royal Canadian took the first historic delivery in June of 1984 when our first of then 15 757's on order. We soon realised that this plane was ideal for our operations being the ideal aircraft for North American operations. Dubbed for its incredible efficiency and reliability it was used on our North and South American routes and given the flexibility of this aircraft we decided to place an order for a grand total of 42 jets in 1994. We stand by our trust in the 757 until this very day in 2018. As the planes were in their phasing out period today only 26 remain in operational fleet with an average age of 22 years, however the planes found a new purpose in the early 2010's as we launched transatlantic flights with this plane to destinations such as Edinburgh, Birmingham and Lisbon the aircraft was a huge success for us.

Royal Canadian is currently replacing the continental 757's with A321NEO aircraft however those on our long haul routes lack a replacement hence why we care to provide the best maintenance for them to ensure they can serve us until we find a potential replacement. We can only currently say that we are considering the A321NEO LR variant as a possible replacement however this would not be the ideal for us. As demand grew some transatlantic flights the 757 used to fly are now flown by the 787-8 however this is a very small part of our routes.