Originally Posted by
peter we
There is more ground clearance under the wings of a A320.
Much alike the DC8 vs B707 wiith the DC8 being designed to take propellors there wasn't a problem in it's later years taking fan engines for the -70 series.
The B737 was deigned for JT9 'rockets' but ever since the -300 series, with the flat bottomed enginge cowlings, Boeing. have been 'scratching' it.
Airbus came along with a natural sized Y190 (ish) A320, a stretched A321 variant capable of Y230 (ish) but for Boeing's 737 to compete with an A320 they have already stretched it and simply cannot compete with the A321.
A 53 y/o concept designed to take underwing 'rockets' still going today! It's not just the Max's ID that has been tarnished, it's the B737 ID that has been tarnished, we might recognise the different generations of airliners here but, generally speaking, Joe Public don't, were it a particular model of BMW car that were tagged as life threatening do you think that potential cusatomers would remember the precise ID or just avoid that brand of car totally?
Time for a wake-up Boeing, time to start from scratch again, a new aircraft with longer legs to take the fan engines and call it anything except a 737 or even a Boeing.