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'I want to get off the plane.' The passengers refusing to fly on Boeings 737 MAX
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- yumraj 3y ago> The Seattle resident booked with Alaska Airlines last March, purposefully selecting a flight with a plane he was happy to board – essentially, anything but a Boeing 737 Max. “I got to the airport, checked again that it wasn’t the Max. I went through security, got coffee. I walked onto the plane – I thought, it’s kinda new,” Pierson told CNN. “Then I sat down and on the emergency card [in the seat pocket] it said it was a Max.” How is this possible? Are airlines hiding/obfuscating the plane type?
- pfannkuchen 3y agoPlanes change last minute all the time to deal with unexpected arrival delays. I don’t think they have any requirement to keep the same aircraft type.
- BlackjackCF 3y agoThat and I don’t think Alaska has much of a choice in the short term without severely impacting their business. According to [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_fleet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_fleet), they have 65 Max 9s and their total fleet size is only 314 planes. They’re in an unfortunate position here. If they ground 1/5 of their fleet for a prolonged period of time, it would cause a lot of flight cancelations and customers would be pissed. On the other hand, even jf they check over all the planes and take precautions, customers don’t want to fly on the planes and are pissed.
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- bentt 3y agoI just flew 3 out of 4 legs of a trip on Southwest on Maxes. Happy to report everything went well. Maybe that should be the headline on CNN.
- bdjsiqoocwk 3y agoThat's not how probabilities work Walter.