Over the course of its history, easyJet flew a total of 84 Boeing 737 aircraft, split between the -200, -300 and -700 variants.
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“If you could book a 737 500, and you find out it's a 737 MAX, technically they don't have to honor your request. … So you don't have a right to specify you are not going to go on a 737 MAX.”
American flies the most of the jets as a portion of its overall fleet. Nearly one-third of its planes are 737-800 jets. Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines do not operate Boeing aircraft.
According to the requirements specified in the FAA Type Certificate Data Sheet (pertinent excerpts shown below) the B737-800 requires a minimum flightcrew of 2 - a Pilot and Copilot.
About Ryanair's Boeing 737 MAX 10sRyanair revealed that its Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft will contain 228 seats each (21% more than its Boeing 737-800s). The Irish low-cost carrier will take delivery of these new, larger aircraft between 2027 and 2033.
Southwest Airlines - the largest operatorCorrespondingly, it also operates the world's largest fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft. According to Planespotters.net, it presently consists of 728 examples of aircraft from the popular narrowbody family, with an average age of 12.5 years.
Despite the FlyersRights concerns, the FAA, Boeing and many pilots deem the 737 MAX safe to fly and many airlines have the plane in service. “I can say categorically that the 737 MAX product is safe,” then-acting FAA administrator Bill Nolen told members of the US Senate Commerce Committee in March.
No refusals to travelAs such, many airlines prepared for nervous passengers to refuse to fly on the aircraft. Ryanair was one of these, with CEO Michael O'Leary stating in 2020 that passengers could have their tickets refunded if they refused to travel on the type.
The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020 – longer in many jurisdictions – after 346 people died in two crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019.
The dominant force at the airline is the Boeing 737 family, which accounts for 84 of these planes. This figure comprises both the 737-300 and 737-800 variants, of which the Yorkshire-based carrier operates seven and 77 examples respectively.
Pilots repeatedly voiced safety concerns about the Boeing 737 Max 8 to federal authorities, with one captain calling the flight manual inadequate and almost criminally insufficient several months before Sunday's Ethiopian Air crash that killed 157 people, an investigation by The Dallas Morning News found.
The FAA ultimately grounded the MAX on March 13, 2019 and lifted the flight prohibition order in November 2020 after Boeing made a series of software upgrades and training changes.