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"Our goal is to operate our schedule with every available aircraft in our fleet,” the budget carrier said in a statement. American Airlines has 24, with 85 MAX flights per day. United Airlines has 14 MAX planes accounting for 40 flights a day. For all three airlines, the aircraft makes up less than 5 percent of their total fleets.
Criminal negligence: purposefully lying about safety for months, not offering simple upgrades & mandatory training of all pilots (foreign & domestic) flying the aircraft. All to save money from potential lawsuits & stock nose diving from bad press. Well it happened anyway.
Then why not ground them sooner tlin order to install updates for the MCAS? Why wait until after a 2nd crash & days public outcry to get started? It was obvious the MCAS system (unique to this model to avoid stalls) was at play after the LionAir crash investigation was finished.