Originally Posted by
82spukram
When the max 10 was sold to us we bought spots on the assembly line. Those spots don’t disappear they will just go to another customer or ,which is my guess, is UAL will sub the -10 spot for a -9 or -8. The bulk of the order can still be taken just not as max 10 but instead a smaller model which I’m sure when UAL signed the contract came with a penalty for Boeing. In other words we will get them for less which will make sense to replace some of the 320,319, 737-700 and 737-800, and 737-900 early.
I've always liked Boeing - even own Boeing stock - but the management has just gone to cr@p in recent years. And the MAX in particular has been a PR disaster. Already some travel apps have filters that are letting the white-knuckle flying crowd avoid buying tickets on the MAX. While Boeing may have finally worked all the bugs out, and I hope they have, they are about one more incident away from the sort of public reaction that doomed the Electra as an airliner even though once Lockheed straightened out the pylon harmonics problem the airframe did yeoman work for the Navy and cargo carriers. Once public perception sufficiently sours on an airframe it creates its own economic headwinds. For right now, slight advantage Airbus. One more MAX screwup, that advantage may both widen and lengthen.