> Going through the process to type certify the Max as anything other than a 737 would’ve been far more expensive Nonsense. Boeing regularly does that. > They

> Going through the process to type certify the Max as anything other than a 737 would’ve been far more expensive Nonsense. Boeing regularly does that. > They added the MCAS because they didn’t want the Max to be a different type, which meant starting the certification process from scratch. Also nonsense. They added the MCAS because they didn’t want the Max to certify as anything but a different type because the entire point of the Max program was for customers who exclusively fly 737s (like Southwest) to be able to fly a more efficient plane without needing to recertify pilots. Unlike Airbus, Boeing does not have unified profiles and accelerated cross-type training[0], so changing type is close to a full certification for crews, which translates to the crews being grounded for several weeks / a few months. [0] IIRC they have something along those lines for some planes released close to one another, but Airbus has it across most of the range, with the exception of the older types and the A220 which is not an Airbus plane per-se (it's a rebadging of the Bombardier CSeries)