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Given the drop in passenger traffic and the fact the aircraft is still not cleared to fly, any surprises?

Two weeks ago, American Airlines confirmed it would keep its order of Boeing 737 MAX but now, the situation changed completely as it started threatening to cancel a part of it. The apparent reason for that is the airline’s struggle to secure financing for the 17 of 737 MAX, which were expected to be delivered in 2020.

But what has to be a real sore point at Boeing...

The decision is extremely inconvenient for Boeing, especially when American Airlines, Boeing’s 10th biggest customer, was the one to urge the company to develop and manufacture a narrow-body aircraft that would be more fuel-efficient, which caused the birth of 737 MAX.

https://www.aerotime.aero/silvija.vaidogaite/25391-american-airlines-plans-to-cancel-its-boeing-737-max-order

Given that, anyone else think Boeing would be indifferent to AA's plight?

They deserve each other.

I hadn't realised that the Max had racked up 600 cancellations. Ouch.

The timing on this could not have been worse. Makes the 787 fiasco look minor in comparison. Airplane grounded, and now even if they get it all fixed and approved by all the different regulatory agencies, what airline is going to take delivery of a new plane when they've got plenty in storage and no customers to fill them?

Boeing might as well relax, take time and sort out any little bug that was reported in the aircrafts short operational life span, and hope by the time they have all those bugs worked out flying is beginning to resume and airlines are ready to accept delivery.

Airbus doesn't have the same exact problem, but the problem of taking new planes, even if they are proven to work just fine, is going to be a problem for airlines losing money every single day.

Thankfully they just got a $23B order for brand new F-15s, which they say have a really awesome new maneuvering mannerisms helper system. A good value for the American taxpayer.

Maybe they can take some of the AA planes and make B38M tankers and sell them to us, complete with added Easter eggs, such as ladders wrapped up in the rudders.

Value added!