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WestJet has been adding the 787 as well, for their international flights. I think that single aisle jets are a hard sell for flights that long, for whatever reason. I used to be pretty active on the Flyertalk forums and would constantly see people on the various airline groups saying "No way am I sitting in a 757 to Europe", and would take the more inconvenient widebody flight over the ocean. Even Air Canada had a regular A319 from St John's to London England, which was barely longer than St John's to Toronto and people preferred flying back to Halifax to go over on a 767 or A330. I once sat in an A320 for 6.5 hours in headwinds going to LA from Detroit, so I don't see the big deal of 7 or 8 hours going to Europe. I mean, I hated being in the plane a couple hours longer than planned but a widebody wasn't going to change that. (The pilots rode our hotel bus and we chatted with them about how long the flight was, and they said it was close, that we almost needed to land for fuel on the way. That would have been hell then lol).

I also think many of those new MAX 700's are to replace 700NG's, many of which are well over 15 years old now.