Originally Posted by
CaptTX
Simple Flying just posted a new article today saying certification is being pushed to 2026 at the earliest because the fix for the anti-ice isn’t working as well as expected and needs more work.
It never ends with this damn airplane does it…
It’s really just getting sadly comical now. They’ve been working on fixing this TAI issue for 2+ years now. Back in the day they could almost go from clean sheet design to revenue service in about the same time. Heck, the Empire State Building was built in 4 years.
We are stuck in the mud with no appreciable growth for the next 3 or 4 years. If that thing actually shows up sometime in 2026 for revenue service it really won’t make a dent in overall fleet size until late 2027. It will just be replacing beat up 700s on a one-for-for basis initially.