Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et...
by Scoundreller on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:23AM
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It’s a solvable problem in the medium term, but a real mess short-term if your fleet has a high proportion of 737 MAXs.
Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et...
by robin_reala on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:38AM
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True, but that’s part of the risk equation of deciding to go for a monoculture in the first place (as with most business choices). There are benefits (ease of maintenance and training highest) that need to be judged against potential problems (like in this case where a model is grounded).
Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et...
by Scoundreller on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:58AM
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Even in my airline’s case, they’re not monoculture, but I’m booked on one of their longest routes. They can only sub another plane if they make a refuel stop (or so it seems by my estimation).
We’ll see what happens.
Re:Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Et...
by isostatic on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:54AM
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Which fleets do? Southwest and American don't, 5% and 2% respectively.
Norwegian is 11% and have grounded their planes. Air Canada 10%. China Southern 3%, Air China 3%.
FlyDubai seems the largest, with 14/62 planes (23%).
There's about 6500 737s, and a similar number of A320s.
Grounding 2.5% of the world's fleet of mid-size planes isn't really a medium sized wrench.
Personally I'll fly on the 98% of mid-sized planes that haven't had 2% of them crash in the last 6 months.