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A better question is what will Southwest Airlines do? They exclusively run 737s as I understand it and they effectively have no choice here to beta test Boeing
by fred_is_fred 3y ago
A better question is what will Southwest Airlines do? They exclusively run 737s as I understand it and they effectively have no choice here to beta test Boeing's garbage.
I think United CEO's comment is at best a renegotiation attempt.
- thot_experiment 3y agoBoeing's garbage is at least partially a direct result of Southwest being unwilling to accept a change in type rating for the new 737.
- icegreentea2 3y agoNo, Boeing's garbage is a result of shit tier engineering and maybe their own lack of confidence. Southwest had a challenging customer requirement to hit, and Boeing failed to deliver. Consider if Boeing refused to build the MAX to be type rating identical. Southwest would -have- to buy and retrain. Sure, maybe Southwest would go to Airbus to spite Boeing, but I don't think that would happen if Boeing provided a better product. Airlines typically aren't that petty about these types of strategic decisions. The MCAS fix themselves showed that MCAS wasn't fundamentally a bad idea - just that they had awful implementation (use both AOA sensors? Fail-safe if AOA sensors disagree? Provide proper limits and overrides?). And now after the entire kurfuffle and fixes, 737 MAX still has the same type rating as 737 NG in USA, Canada and Europe (that's just the ones that I checked). MCAS and 737 MAX could have been a home run.