Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January
I'm surprised that the market hasn't reacted more negatively towards Boeing regarding the Max 8 disaster.<p>Airlines operate on razor-thin margins (~1 to 2%), and several users of the Max 8 have had significant portions of their fleet out of service as a result.<p>Westjet [1], for example runs 124 planes currently. 13 of which are the Max 8. Over 10% of their fleet. Southwest Airlines [2], for example, runs 748 planes, 34 of which are Max 8s (with an additional 246 ordered), ~4.5% of the fleet.<p>The lawsuits that are surely incoming are going to pile-drive this company into the ground.<p>edit: [1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WestJet#Current_fleet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WestJet#Current_fleet</a>
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