Originally Posted by
WHBM
As I understand it ...
Boeing kept quiet about MCAS because they wanted to present it as "the same as an NG", and didn't want to do any additional simulator training. Not so much because it would be an issue to allocate crews for this as the aircraft came on line, but because no simulators would be available in time.
And because someone in Boeing Sales apparently told SWA that there would be no need for a MAX simulator qualification, and they were so sure this would be the case that they promised that Boeing would pay SWA
one million dollars per airframe (or maybe knock a cool million off the price?) if simulator time was required.
Originally Posted by
WHBM
And apparently they are still not, only a couple are available now, and some of the major owners have still not yet got one. That's the real delay there would have been in introduction of the aircraft.