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Says the company that f'd over Embraer. Maybe build a 737 with an avionics package that is not a bag of "a" holes. A friend flew Citations before going to United and getting the guppy out of LAX. He jumpseated on my 175 and couldn't stop talking about how the brand new Max he just flew is so far behind the Brazilian bus. When you stop being an engineering firm and become a marketing firm, that's why Boeing is where it is.
If they had the balls to say no to Southwest and Ryanair and build a 797, they wouldn't be in this mess at all. All of this stems from holding onto the 737 design for far too long.