Originally Posted by
imaflyertalkuserwow
I’d of course still prefer the MAX, but that wouldn’t bother as much since at least I’d have 2KU connectivity the whole flight. Really frustrating to not be able to text, much less use the internet. Especially on long flights like yesterday’s ORD-ANC. Even on today’s ANC-SEA I only had service for the first ~20min or so before it crapped out. These 738s cannot be retrofitted fast enough.
I forgot that one of my swaps was actually to an old-school non-ETOPS 900 series. That was exciting for me as I'd never been on one, but it definitely showed its age.
Earlier that day I was scheduled to be on an 800 and switched to an earlier flight on a 700. Not a huge difference there and I slept for 90% of the flight.
I do really enjoy the MAX 9s so I was kind of bummed to get taken off them.
-J.