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This is odd: that table suggests the MAX has flown 600k flights, but https://randy.newairplane.com/2018/05/22/737-max-a-year-of-serving-the-globe/ https://randy
by cjbprime 7y ago
This is odd: that table suggests the MAX has flown 600k flights, but https://randy.newairplane.com/2018/05/22/737-max-a-year-of-serving-the-globe/ https://randy.newairplane.com/2018/05/22/737-max-a-year-of-s... suggests the MAX had only flown 41k total flights six months before the first crash. Adding >500k flights before the grounding seems implausible.
- kayfox 7y agoThat article was published exactly one year after the introduction, at the time about a third of all delivered aircraft to date were delivered, theres some lag from delivery to first revenue flight, so its plausible that less than 100 had been in revenue service. So, with all the lag in getting the aircraft into service, its plausible that in the next 10 months the type could rack up 500,000 flights, since thats just a little more than 4 flights a day per aircraft on average.
- cjbprime 7y agoThanks. It still seems very surprising to me, but I agree it's plausible. I suppose someone with full access to data from e.g. FlightAware could try to see how many total logged flights there were.