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I will go the extra mile to avoid flying on that plane.

The main issue is that both Boeing and Airline companies who are shady enough to buy this at a discount, will also actively re-brand the airplane so that it is no longer named 737-MAX.

As an example, Ryanair already ordered a batch at a bargain price and relabeled the MAX as a new aircraft '737-8200'.

The 737-8200 designation well predates either of the fatal crashes.

I stand corrected, but arguably the point stands that a different designation will be sufficient to obfuscate the '737-MAX' fligths, from any consumers trying to avoid it.

All of the things so far cited as ways Boeing has been obfuscating the MAX name have been things that Boeing has not actually done. On the contrary many airlines are being clear what they are doing to bring back their MAX aircraft, and not trying to hide it.

The -7 -8 and -9 designations have been used since the beginning. The -8200 is a special high capacity -8 with extra exits for a really high density 200 passenger layout that RyanAir wanted. The MAX name is a generational marketing name like how the -700, -800 and -900 got named "Next Generation" and the previous generation named "Classic" at that time.

Renaming it is not going to work and would not inspire confidence, and Boeing knows that.

Do we need a website isit737max.com? :) I would totally use it.

You'd be a negligible minority.

What are you even talking about?

I will do that not to protest against Boeing, but to save my own life.

I don’t care if I am a negligible minority in Boeing’s or yours eyes

Off topic but sorry about the job, mate.

We were all backing you, but the Roman army rolls on...

We're discussing Boeing as a company and their grounded fleet. Sorry I assumed you sharing this was somewhat relevant.

Anecdotally, the people I know who say they won't fly in a 737 max in the future and who know how to check (or ask the staff booking their plane tickets for them to check) for that are also the frequent flyers who fly in first class/business class.

I wonder if it might be a minority that is significant to the bottom line.

If you look at the top of the list of Max buyers, there' a lot of low cost airlines. So at least those won't be affected by this type of customer.

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