Well, it's no frills but it's Airbus, so no doors flying off just yet. I know someone who likes flying AS on the SJC-LAS segment, so he's undoubtedly gotten to meet the Max before.

(John Oliver did a really devastating segment about Boeing and how they'd caught the "shareholder value" disease and had execs obsessing over the stock price some years earlier and how that cultural shift could have been a contributing factor to the quality problems they're having now.)

As an American, it's all a bit embarrassing. Reminds me how, when I was younger, I wanted to buy American cars. Nobody thinks that way anymore. Even ignoring any safety issues, the narrowbody Airbus give you a noticeable extra inch of seat width, and the widebody 777 has super narrow seats in coach

Is that really Boeing's fault though? Almost every 777 delivered 20 years ago had 9 seats across in economy. Today, pretty much every airline has converted to 10...
Assuming you're just referring to narrowbodies, yeah A320 is ~7 inches wider than a 737... we just have to pray evacuation requirements don't change lest airlines try to shove 7 across into an a320.

Power banks/stations over 100wh of capacity or 27,100mah are not allowed to be brought onto an airplane since they contain lithium

https://www.powerbankexpert.com/faa-...gers-airplane/

John Oliver’s stats and sources should sometimes often be taken with a pinch handful of salt!

He should be crowned king of out of context.

Well, the Emmy Awards sure like him.

Well, he makes for great TV, no doubt!

That does not make him immune to misrepresenting facts to fit his goals. He has done two shows on stuff I have subject matter knowledge, and I found both of them were exaggerated as he was bending stats, and his solutions to the problems (which admittedly he identified correctly actually) were ridiculous to anyone with even basic knowledge in the field. But it made for great TV!