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Re:Why airlines make flights longer on purpose by rootusrootus on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:59AM (#19615329)
American has 24 Boeing 737-MAX8 planes out of a fleet of 963. For comparison, Southwest, who also has a large fleet of planes, has 34 out of 754.

Effectively they are operating a fleet that is 2.5% smaller than normal. I expect some impact to their schedule, but it shouldn't hit it that hard.

Re:Why airlines make flights longer on purpose by dank79430 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:44PM (#19617194)
2.5% may seem small but I'd wager the ripple is larger than you think. I have read upwards of 90 regularly scheduled flights being canceled well into June. Assume each flight has an average of 150 passengers (plane capacity is between 138-230) then you are looking at 13,500 lost connections every day, seven days a week well into high time for travel. I am hard pressed to believe that sacrifices will not be made on account of this seemingly minimal fleet size change.