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Boeing Forced to Store Grounded 737 Max Planes on Employee Parking Lots
The company has so many planes awaiting repairs at its Washington State facility that it's quickly running out of room. (www.thedrive.com) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
BA has orded many of these planes recently,not a good idea until the fix they issues with the plane
No BA haven't ordered any. IAG group has a LOI in [Letter Of Intent for up to 200 to be put across the IAG group] but NOTHING has actually been ordered yet!
Without public trust those aircraft are going to be stored for a long time unless they get fixed soon.
I was wondering how much work or cost it will take to put each plane back into the air when (OK, I'm optimistic here, so I'm not using "if") they have been upgraded. Commercial jets are really designed these days to be flying around and not sitting around in a parking lot (or a corner of the airfield) for such an extended period of time. It's not as bad as taking a plane out of mothball but it must cost quite a bit.
It's hard on the workers, but from a cost stand point, it's way cheaper to layoff the workers than build planes they can't sell or their customers can't use. For a company who was so shorted sighted that they let unsafe planes fly to save a dime, they now seem to be blowing money away. Management isn't talking to accounting and no one is talking to production or engineering. I have less and less confidence this company is going to survive.
a fix is not always the best solution - scrap and start over no one will have the confidence to fly these aircraft anymore, ever