Originally Posted by
Zenofzin
Any of you guys ever taken an economics class?? What plane you like or think is cool don’t mean sh$t, sorry boys the 737 isn’t going away... it’s a money maker.
That’s why all the LCCs are buying Airbus?
Originally Posted by
cadetdrivr
It seems UAL is the primary customer for the 737 MAX 9 and 10.
Meanwhile, the 321 NEO outsells the large MAXs 5-to-1. (Sales of the 320 NEO and the MAX 8 are far more similar.)
Since these sorts of decisions are made by CFOs I'm gonna assume that economics are indeed the primary driver. Which begs the question: was UAL given an insanely awesome sweetheart deal on these large MAXs or are we simply the outlier? Or both? Or something else?
What I’ve heard is the big swath of guppies we got in the 2012-16 timeframe were a consolation prize (at steep discount) for all the 787 delays (that at Znotins, who was let go, was a guppy fanboy). That pretty much set us on course to be a guppy narrow body fleet... that and the NEO is sold out through the end of forever.
So Boeing is late, over schedule, sells a POS at usedcar prices, and hooks us into being committed to said underperforming narrow body airplane until the end of time. Gotta give them credit... well played.