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Is Boeing 737 MAX8 seating getting tighter?
There have been several stories about the tight bathrooms on the new MAX8. This is not the only thing about the MAX8 that travelers might want to consider. Look at this seating table, which compares the active MAX8 fleet as…
Are aging fleets a problem?
With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that airplanes are vulnerable. There is nothing quite like an airline/airplane scary story to catch people’s attention. The industry safety statistics are too good to…
Boeing Finalizes a Larger 737 MAX 7 Design
At the Farnborough Air Show, Boeing announced it had finalized its design for the 737 MAX 7, adding two rows of seats and utilizing the same wing as the 737 MAX 8. This should both simplify production of the two…
What WestJet Going International Means
Canada’s WestJet announced, in a briefing to its pilots, that it is planning to acquire wide-body aircraft and begin flying internationally in 2015. The carrier currently wet-leases Boeing 757s from Thomas Cook for Hawaii operations, and those contracts expire next…
WestJet joins MAX club
WestJet entered into a LoI to purchase 65 737 MAXs, consisting of 40 737 MAX 8s and 25 737 MAX 7s. The pending order, valued at $6.3bn at current list prices, is a key component of the Calgary-based carrier’s strategy…