Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
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Re: Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
#2According to the article Boeing has halted production, but this leaves the door open to producing them again in the future after design updates. I predict they'll try to rename the model and fly it again after making changes and certifying.
That being said, I never want to fly on a 737 Max or whatever they plan to rebrand it as.
Re: Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
#3According to the article Boeing has halted production, but this leaves the door open to producing them again in the future after design updates. I predict they'll try to rename the model and fly it again after making changes and certifying. That being said, I never want to fly on a 737 Max or whatever they plan to rebrand it as.
Yes, I imagine the rebranding will be as ineffective as Comcast rebranding as Xfinity, where everyone knows they are the same.
Re: Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
#4According to the article Boeing has halted production, but this leaves the door open to producing them again in the future after design updates. I predict they'll try to rename the model and fly it again after making changes and certifying. That being said, I never want to fly on a 737 Max or whatever they plan to rebrand it as.
Yes, I imagine the rebranding will be as ineffective as Comcast rebranding as Xfinity, where everyone knows they are the same.
Their stock price certainly has a much better slope post rebrand. Though I don't know all the factors.
Re: Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
#5According to the article Boeing has halted production, but this leaves the door open to producing them again in the future after design updates. I predict they'll try to rename the model and fly it again after making changes and certifying. That being said, I never want to fly on a 737 Max or whatever they plan to rebrand it as.
I'd assume this is only temporary. How many orders for the Max do they still have unfulfilled? That'd be a significant loss if they intended to not fill them sometime in the future.
Edit: It says in the article
> The assembly line in Renton, Washington, has stopped building Boeing's bestselling plane, the company confirmed late Monday. Boeing announced plans to temporarily halt production for an undetermined period in December, but it had not previously announced a precise day for the shutdown.
Re: Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
#6According to the article Boeing has halted production, but this leaves the door open to producing them again in the future after design updates. I predict they'll try to rename the model and fly it again after making changes and certifying. That being said, I never want to fly on a 737 Max or whatever they plan to rebrand it as.
that's fine - but 99% of everybody else will fly a 737 Max for $x less and after 1-3 months of no reported incidents.
Re: Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
#7According to the article Boeing has halted production, but this leaves the door open to producing them again in the future after design updates. I predict they'll try to rename the model and fly it again after making changes and certifying. That being said, I never want to fly on a 737 Max or whatever they plan to rebrand it as.
that's fine - but 99% of everybody else will fly a 737 Max for $x less and after 1-3 months of no reported incidents.
Aftee a few years I may fly them again, I just need to wait until the statistics are conviencing enough.
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Re: Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
#9According to the article Boeing has halted production, but this leaves the door open to producing them again in the future after design updates. I predict they'll try to rename the model and fly it again after making changes and certifying. That being said, I never want to fly on a 737 Max or whatever they plan to rebrand it as.
that's fine - but 99% of everybody else will fly a 737 Max for $x less and after 1-3 months of no reported incidents.
I think you’re underestimating how much fear people have of flying. If there’s a plane that is considered “dangerous” then people are going to avoid it. It’s not like airlines losing your luggage which people just put up with.
Re: Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
#10According to the article Boeing has halted production, but this leaves the door open to producing them again in the future after design updates. I predict they'll try to rename the model and fly it again after making changes and certifying. That being said, I never want to fly on a 737 Max or whatever they plan to rebrand it as.
I'm almost there, after reading about how much Boeing has spent on stock buybacks (5x all of R&D over the past six years) I think I'm going to start looking into which model typically services a route and avoid all modern Boeing planes.
Boeing made a lot of executives super rich with buybacks and equity compensation, this led directly to the shoddy engineering choices.