Originally Posted by
KPer
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.
I think we've got much bigger issues in play regarding growth, or lack of, than the Max7. We are currently receiving new Max8s largely to replace the -700s as they hit the 24 year cliff, and the company seems to be a-okay these days with more 175-seaters in the fleet. I'd still like to fly one before my time is up, but I'm firmly in the 'believe it when it's sitting at one of our gates' mode.