Count one more please. Searched for flight, saw Boing 737, no thank you! Paid premium for Airbus. That’s for three passengers.

You know the 737 and the 737 MAX are two completely different planes right?

I'm not going to fly on any 737, just in case the MAX bit gets truncated. Everyone I've talked to has expressed the same fear. I don't care if it's irrational or not - it's my life, and I'm not risking it on one of these stupid, cost-cutting planes.

Boeing 737-MAX is longer than previous iterations of 737.

And that means...?

You cannot confuse them because of the sheer size and shape difference.

The physical characteristics are not presented to you when booking your flight.

By the time you've arrived at the airport and see the MAX at your gate, it's too late and you've already paid your fare.

You can DDG specifications of your plane by model number and nay, they have to be unique per revision.

I'm choosing

1. to make certain I don't board one of these machines by mistake. I will not risk my life over this egregious comedy.

2. to vote with my dollars and punish Boeing and businesses that do business with Boeing, especially if they refuse to remove these planes from their fleet.

What Boeing committed here is leagues beyond the recent emissions scandals. It's criminal and the perpetrators should be afraid of the coming justice. This should honestly be as close to a company-ending event as one could imagine. We shouldn't treat this lightly, slap on the wrist, business as usual. This must never happen again.

Yes I do. But as the comment above says, I am not risking it, even though it is borderline irrational.

How do you know the plane model before you board? It's not shown when buying the ticket, it's not written on the ticket either.

You can avoid airlines that have the 737 MAX in their fleet (domestically, the biggest are United, Southwest and American). Whenever I fly I fly Delta, and I’ll never fly on a MAX because Delta doesn’t have any.

Some airlines do! Qatar and Emirates, I think.

but they rotate them quite a lot, don’t they?

i booked a boeing 787 dreamliner but ended up in a crummy 777 from a decade ago.

Delta showed me when buying online. Let me select seats too.

You can find that at https://flightaware.com just from the flight number...

It should be there among the flight itinerary data, often hidden behind an accordion or tooltip.