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A bit off-topic, but I found it curious that Ryanair refuses to call their Max fleet "737 Max-8", instead they go for "737-8200" in both their safety cards and
by agubelu 3y ago
A bit off-topic, but I found it curious that Ryanair refuses to call their Max fleet "737 Max-8", instead they go for "737-8200" in both their safety cards and cabin briefings. I wonder if this is common and if other airlines do the same after the reputational damage from the crashes and groundings.
- blibble 3y agoryanair using misleading advertising? say it's not so! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair#Misleading_advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair#Misleading_advertising o'leary bought them as he got them cheap, exactly the same as ryanair's fleet in the 90s
- throwaheyy 3y agoThey call it that because their plane is in fact not a 737 Max 8. Ryanair’s aircraft is a different variant, made only for them, the Max 200 which is the same size as a Max 8 but has the extra exits for up to 200 pax.
- switch007 3y agoIt is in fact a 737 Max 8. It’s a 737-8-200
- salawat 3y agoThat's called a different configuration. It is still a MAX8. A rose, by any other name...
- throwaheyy 3y agoSure but if you read what I’m replying to, they are not “lying” to call it a 737-8-200. That is what it is.
- mihaaly 3y ago...so basically the same just named to sound remarkably different. One more exit and it is not at all the problematic MAX anymore! ;) Surprised they still call it 737 then. :)
- philwelch 3y agoThis reminds me of the old mattress store scam, where each mattress store has its own slightly different SKU of basically the same mattress purely to make it harder for the customer to compare prices between stores.