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> it would be nice to have more widebody flights You'll be a fan of the new midmarket airplane Boeing is planning at the moment then. It's really hard to thin
by erentz 8y ago
> it would be nice to have more widebody flights
You'll be a fan of the new midmarket airplane Boeing is planning at the moment then.
It's really hard to think of an ideal time that Boeing could reasonably have done a clean sheet 737. They're constrained in how many programs they can run at a time. After the 777, we had the huge 787 program which pushed boundaries a lot.
Then we run into this situation now where a clean sheet 737 was not going to sell and airlines didn't want to wait and retrain their pilots, so they would've switched to the A320 making a replacement 737 untenable at this time.
It seems Boeing would've needed to somehow go back in time and do a clean sheet 737 around the same time as the 757/767 program. Which would've been amazing if they'd done it, but the 737 was still a perfectly viable aircraft back then so how could they justify it.