Boeing is betting on smaller, longer range aircraft for point to point air travel. Essentially reworking the hub and spoke airline model. Hub and spoke made sense back when the only long range aircraft were the jumbos.
That’s no longer true.
“Boeing is betting on smaller, longer range aircraft for point to point air travel.”
Actually their new 797 is going to be shorter range. Sort of a shorter range 787. They have market analyses that break down the demand for range versus capacity on a matrix. They look for holes and make products that fill them. Bigger is not always better. Neither is ‘longer range’.