Originally Posted by flyforever1970

You obviously haven't been flying the 737 for long then!!! Needless de-icing happens ALL THE TIME. Even in pre summer and pre fall months in places you would never expect it. And BTW, it's almost never ALL within "the box".

It doesn't matter what you do with the climate control... if you are a passenger on the -900 it WILL be hellishly hot in the back during the summer for sure!!

The only reason there aren't more MEL's is because the recall POS almost never works right so you never know what is NOT working correctly.