Originally Posted by
SamYeager
The airlines will need to have enough trained pilots available to fly these aircraft. In addition I believe many airlines need to arrange finance to pay the final tranche that is payable on delivery and they may wish to spread this out over a period of time. In all likelihood Boeing will just need to bear the cost of maintaining this excess stock until airlines are in a position to take the aircraft.
But the majority of these airlines shall already be operating the B737-NG so the training to the MAX shall literally be a day or two in a classroom and a simulator session or two.
But there lies part of the problem, the crew of the BMA crash on the M1 had been trained on the -300, a quickie two day conversion to the -400, and whilst what happened thereafter may be history the flight crew subsequently won an industrial tribunal or two on the grounds that they hadn't been sufficiently trained to operate the -400.
There are significant differences between the NG and the MAX which manufacturers play down to avoid total new type certifications, the crew could have been operating an NG yesterday, a MAX today and an NG tomorrow, easy to make a mistake of which type of B737 they are operating!