Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:33 am
#1780137
Gertie wrote:.. If you care about not flying in a 737 MAX you check when booking. Substitutions of aircraft type do happen, but not all that often.
ISTR the great selling point of the Max to the airlines was to those already operating older 737s that crews would not need any retraining in the air (nor even much if any in the Sim, but only in the classroom) to add it to their existing Type Ratings. There were then, presumably, airlines currently operating only 737s, perhaps only newish ones like -800s, who had plans to operate only Maxs with their promised lower operating costs (a well-known Irish airline, who reportedly hired only those who already had 737 TRs ?); an aircraft substitution would presumably be most likely to another airframe of that airline and of same (sub)type. Therefore, one way to avoid Maxs would presumably be wholly to avoid such airlines. That would be easier for the prospective passenger to understand.
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