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"the population of the country would be quick to disapprove" - now you've got me curious. Who would be disapproving? I doubt US population would care much for a Boeing Swapout, or Europe for an Airbus one. Embraer is from Brazil, but I don't think LATAM even has any. Does the Eastern world care more?

Or is it a model thing? Noise/pollution thing? Are you flying to some small island nation with special planes?

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Germans would.

It's difficult to explain, you have to live here a while and experience it. Some things are tolerated, some things NOT. Occasionally flying other aircraft than planned? OK. Skewing the occasional swaps, deceptively using an aircraft type that the general public distrusts? NOT OK. That would turn niché distrust of an aircraft type into wide distrust of the airline.

> Or is it a model thing?

Yes, this is very likely about avoiding the max 8.

737 Max in general [1], but especially recently the Max 9 [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX#Alaska_Airlines...

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