Boeing responds rapidly on 737 Max upgrades
Friday morning March 12, 2019 Boeing shares rise on report that company will roll out software upgrade for 737 Max. with a worldwide grounding of Max 8 and 9 series aircraft. The software upgrade is planned to come out in 10 days. As the world knows about both Lion Air and this week’s Ethiopian air crash. A number of airlines are affected around the globe with the Boeing max 8 and 9 series. North American airlines United, Southwest, and American are affected with fleet management difficulties. Flights have been affected since the grounding earlier this week.
Canada both Westjet and Air Canada are affected with this worldwide grounding. Other airlines like Norwegian, Gol , China Eastern, and Turkish Airlines feel the affects of grounding. Many media outlets continue writing articles about it. We like to take a moment ourselves send our thoughts and prayers to all those affected.
For those of us that remember the McDonald Douglas DC 10 grounding worldwide temporarily in June 1979. There was one airline called Laker Airways that had a majority of its fleet DC 10’s Flying the Skytrain was fun for many of the second-long-haul no-frills airline in 1977. Laker originally founded in 1966 became famous late 1970’s with the long-haul flight to JFK from Britain’s London Gatwick airport. Back then things were a lot easier in aviation in many aspects. Computers were not as integrated as they are today in the new aircraft being built today
With this many airline’s need to take a lesson from this grounding when it comes to many aspects with training maintenance and fleet. We at airline adviser do not just write articles hence this site is not always posting. We do have experience in aviation and fire service. With that in mind training and consulting is a part of our domain among others. Research is a must in many business models. We are monitoring this as time goes forward. Many lessons can be learned from history in itself.
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Source Airlines Adviser 03/15/19