The 737-Max Grounding Is So Bad That Airlines Are Leasing 30-Year-Old 737-200s

[Buraksr]

Its an odd world we live in, where a 30 year old plane is considered more reliable and safe than one particular model of Boeing's "Next Generation lineup". That said there are 50+ year old planes still in service [0], so it is not too surprising that these old planes still work well enough to carry passengers to this day. It just that we would have hoped to have gained safety over all this time, instead of having one quite literal 'killer feature' inadvertently added.

0-https://www.veteranaid.org/blog/5-oldest-us-aircraft-still-i...

[konschubert]

I’m really surprised to hear that these planes will be back in the air in December.

Has the root cause of the two crashes been identified and fixed?

[chmod775]

"Will be" is a bit strong here, more like may be. The European counterpart to the FAA expects it take well into next year.

[darkhorn]

Even if they fix it I'm not going to use any 737.

[rightbyte]

Maybe the airlines should just cancel the flights and reroute to bus or train instead of flying to-be scraped airplaines.

[jperry]

...and boats? How are international flights going to work on a bus?