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.
From a long time buddy engineer at Boeing, the fix to the TAI has to be backward implemented on all the previously delivered max's so that gets time consuming and expensive unless you can find a quick, elegant, and inexpensive fix.