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Almost all true. Just to be specific, Alaska's 737-900ER and MAX9 have seating for 178. @whlinder 's ~175 was close, but I felt the need to clarify. I can be anal retevtive about certain things.

You rang? That word, to me, is like the bat signal.

My thoughts exactly when I saw that picture. At the same time, I can't blame them for not airlining it. With summer travel in full swing - full flights, overtasked ATC, short-staffed airlines, airports at max capacity, and thunderstorms etc. Doesn't take much to have flights delayed or...

It's in my top 3.

I have many thoughts on this and really don't know where to begin. Having young, vibrant female flight attendants definitely resonates with most passengers - more so the men. My perspective as a line captain is totally different. I want them to be able to do their jobs in an emergency or dealing...

Airline captain here with over 17000 hours. I haven't dealt with that VFR stuff since my GA days over 20 years ago.

Well, this is not exactly going to help the investigation.

I watched this last night. Coincidentally, Stalin DM'ed sent it to me this morning. Figured I'd add it to this thread.

Blancolirio update

Reverse thrust has to be manually actuated, after landing, by the pilot flying. Spoilers will come out automatically, if armed. Same with autobrakes, but it was a moot point here with the gear not extended. In any case, seems like there was a lot of panic with this crew and they just wanted to...

Looks like they may have shut down the wrong engine; hence the rush to put it down in the opposite direction. Classic case of shutting down the good engine when you're trying to secure the one that's damaged.