Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
1–10 of 290 posts
Re: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
#2In a weird way, having the Max grounded during 2020 turned out to be lucky timing on Boeing's part. The airlines slowdown due to COVID likely gave them some serious breathing room while they got their shit together.
Now hopefully they actually did get their shit together.
Re: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
#3"In another display of confidence, European budget airline Ryanair was set to place a hefty order for up to 75 additional 737 MAX jets, industry sources said."
A Ryanair spokesperson said "It's the first time we've ever been offered a discount in excess of 100%"
Re: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
#4Given the recent news about delivery services (UPS, Fedex, Amazon) having constraints on capacity this would be a great time for them to invest in some planes. I assume Boeing is desperate to sell these. Or is there something about these planes that makes them unsuitable.
Re: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
#5Given the recent news about delivery services (UPS, Fedex, Amazon) having constraints on capacity this would be a great time for them to invest in some planes. I assume Boeing is desperate to sell these. Or is there something about these planes that makes them unsuitable.
I think they are impractical as freighters. They are narrow bodies and won't hold standard freight containers.
Re: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
#6In a weird way, having the Max grounded during 2020 turned out to be lucky timing on Boeing's part. The airlines slowdown due to COVID likely gave them some serious breathing room while they got their shit together. Now hopefully they actually did get their shit together.
I think I disagree. If they’d taken the time to scrap the 737 Max and move to a new design, they’d have had the time and the public would have eaten the new product up.
Instead, they doubled down and are now going to try to have to sell a product that many will refuse to ever fly on, myself included.
Re: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
#7I recently had the frivolous idea of creating a flight search engine for flights that DID NOT use the 737 Max. Any actual interest in this?
Re: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
#8Maybe they should have bit the bullet and fully redesigned the 737. Presumably future engines will be bigger still, will they just tack them onto this old design as well? At the end of the day this is just a software fix.
Re: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
#9Problem will not be resolved for me until indications of real cultural shift happen in a direction where safety and Quality take some level of priority over brute fiscal efficiency.
Aerospace should be a cost-sink first, a financial growth engine second. Often, a cost-sink is actually both at the same time with the growth in industry around them that new, costly, realistically risky work creates. Whereas optimizing for the second metric at all costs tends to only benefit the undertaker, investigative agencies, and the lawyers.
Re: Boeing's upgraded 737 Max completes first flight with media onboard
#10Given the recent news about delivery services (UPS, Fedex, Amazon) having constraints on capacity this would be a great time for them to invest in some planes. I assume Boeing is desperate to sell these. Or is there something about these planes that makes them unsuitable.
>I assume Boeing is desperate to sell these. Or is there something about these planes that makes them unsuitable.
It's not like Boeing has a warehouse of 737-MAX's sitting around. They are ordered and delivered as they are finished.