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Old Aug 17, 2019, 11:50 am
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Originally Posted by AC7E7


Other than the MCAS issue, I have not heard of any airlines complaining about it. Airlines wanted the 50-year old design. If they did not, they would have waited for a clean-sheet design.

Airlines wanted fuel efficiency, range, timeliness, at a reasonable cost, etc. Boeing managed to provided those[1] by updating a 50 year old design.

[1] actually, they did not provide those.
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