Originally Posted by
TheFiddler
All your posts on this forum are spot on. I've flown 76/75 and now 73. The -800 is a compromise too far. We're flying 50 year old kit made to fit the modern day. The Max is just taking the p**s.
The A320 is now nearly 40 years old. If Boeing started a clean sheet design in 10 years they could be selling the most amazing aircraft.
But the Max is just a disaster.
Disaster, yup MCAS associated crashes were disasters. That said, Boeing has a backlog of thousands of Max 737s, don’t lose sight of its popularity with the people who buy airplanes.