Originally Posted by
bill fly
If the buyer buys a competitors aircraft after using 737 NGs it is going to have to retrain its crews too.
A difference course from NG to Max including MCAS normal and failure modes is a lot less training than a complete ab initio on the A320, so they save on training anyway.
Right. So if extensive retraining was required they just would have went with the existing A320 instead of waiting to for whatever Boeing ended up building.
W/o the limited training the MAX didn't have a market. They built what the market wanted, a more efficient 737 w/ limited retraining or infrastructure changes.
And it appears SW wasn't convinced Boeing could do it, hence the $1m discount (to cover the added costs they expected).