Originally Posted by
tdracer
There are roughly 1,000 737 MAX aircraft currently in service - a certain number of shutdowns and grounded aircraft would be expected for a fleet that size.
And of course there's a huge difference between an individual aircraft being unserviceable (AOG, in airline-speak) due to snags and/or awaiting spares, and the grounding of an entire fleet - a distinction that seems to be lost on our team of investigative journalists (whose CVs all seem devoid of any exposure to the aviation industry).
Heck, even GT would have got that one right ...
