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Greek0 | 3 years ago

The author speaks with an authoritative voice and presents the content as facts. Sadly, the article also contains factual errors. For example:

> This capacity could also be served by a fleet of just 40 737s [...], of which Boeing makes more than 500 per year. Bought new, this fleet would cost $3.6b, and with a lead time of, at most, a few months.

Boeing has a backlog of 4000 planes.[1] Current delivery lead times are 5-10 years, so getting 40 planes within months is ludicrous. Aircraft might be available on shorter timelines from aircraft lenders, but probably not in that timeframe either. It's also not what the article argues.

This puts a question mark over the content: which parts are actually correct and which are merely presented as fact without any checking?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_...

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