BeechTalk - BT - Boeing Has Started Working on a 737 MAX Replacement

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Oct 2025, 10:52

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They are still trying to make Charolette work but they have yet to get the quality up to where it's supposed to be.

You’re right that Charlotte facility is really struggling especially since it is 200 miles away in a different city called Charleston.

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About 2000 they decided to keep cheap vs. the Airbus and bragged about just changing the shape if the wing, bigger engines, etc. and no new Certification. Well, IF they'd gone new instead of warmed over, they'd be doing a lot better now.

Username Protected · Last edited on 20 Oct 2025, 13:13, edited 1 time in total.

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Only 10 years too late.

Not for SWA. Like Emirates, SWA drives many design changes and places big orders. The 737NG was only supposed to be a stop-gap airplane between the classic and a new - clean sheet design. SWA came along and ordered the 737NG by the thousands, and they still wanted the dreaded 6-pack efis display w no auto throttles, yep that's what they got.

Boeing is in the business to sell airplanes and it's what the customer wanted. Airline pilots love to complain on what an airplane doesn't have but they don't pay the bills.

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A side note that's getting some mention today:

"The FAA has allowed Boeing to increase its 737 MAX production rate to 42 aircraft per month,
up from the previous cap of 38."

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Username Protected wrote:

Only 10 years too late.

Not for SWA. Like Emirates, SWA drives many design changes and places big orders. The 737NG was only supposed to be a stop-gap airplane between the classic and a new - clean sheet design. SWA came along and ordered the 737NG by the thousands, and they still wanted the dreaded 6-pack efis display w no auto throttles, yep that's what they got.

Boeing is in the business to sell airplanes and it's what the customer wanted. Airline pilots love to complain on what an airplane doesn't have but they don't pay the bills.

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I’d go as far to say that Boeing is more like 40 years late on this. When Airbus created the A320 in the early 80s should have been the impetus for Boeing to get off its rear and replace the 737 with a clean-sheet redo. Since it was caught flat footed after the A320 came out, Boeing scrambled to create the NG which was a huge improvement over the classic but still a generation behind the A320 in technology and comfort for both passengers and crew. The Max redesign is again another Band-Aid to a design which was already way passed due. Again, all Airbus had to do was hang geared turbofans on the A320 to create the Neo while Boeing engineers had to, again, go back to do the engineering table with the seemingly impossible task of hanging huge fans on the low-slung 737 to create the Max requiring yet another major redo. Boeing has been leading from behind for far too long now and is getting its butt handed to them by Airbus.

Even if Boeing could redesign the 737 in just a few years(and they can’t) they would still be decades behind Airbus who created a scaleable design to fulfill many more roles with minimal pilot training between airframes.