Analysts suggested that Boeing would instead pursue stretching its 747 design, and that air travel was already moving away from the hub-and-spoke system that consolidated traffic into large planes, and toward more non-stop routes that could be served by smaller planes.
Analitičari su naslutili da će Boeing poduzeti produženje svoga 747, i da se zračni promet već udaljava iz sustava hub and spoke koji je konsolidirao promet velikih aviona, prema više non-stop ruta koje mogu opsluživati manji avioni.