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 | | Boeing has announced that production of the Boeing 757 will stop at the end of 2004, due to a lack of orders. |
 | | Boeing did not immediately have one available, and this provided a market opening that was ultimately taken up by Airbus, who built the A320, and by McDonnell Douglas, who built a stretched version of the DC-9 called the MD-80. |
 | | Boeing has stretched the 737 even further, and the longest version, the 737-900, can hold up to 180 passengers anyway, which is close to the capacity of a 757. |
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