Boeing Launches 737 MAX 200 With Ryanair

A ‘Game changer’?

Relative to what is on the market now, yes.

Relative to what will be on the market then… not so much.

Airliners and other non-sport aircraft seem to be immune to any “let’s make it look ‘cool’ ” school of thought.
Besides, airlines seem to only judge aircraft by their bottom line, not design lines.

If that were true, there wouldn’t be the current fad with composites for PSEs where they are wholly inappropriate when used as a “black metal”.

[Next gen composites with CNF in the resin will be a different ballgame, but the current crop should have been largely bypassed.]

Besides, airlines seem to only judge aircraft by their bottom line, not design lines.

Perhaps, but I would argue very strongly that quite a lot of people would want to fly more on a sharply styled new aircraft than a less attractive new one, generating higher revenues for an airline.
To my eye, the Max 200’s modern wing/engines (save the winglets, which look horrible) don’t match the 1970 fuselage. Much better the B787-9, which is a fine looking machine.

It’s going to be a good airplane : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8W3TnLnPmQ

Isn’t it time for a styling update?

Airliners and other non-sport aircraft seem to be immune to any “let’s make it look ‘cool’ ” school of thought.
Besides, airlines seem to only judge aircraft by their bottom line, not design lines.

http://www.ibtimes.com/boeing-launches-737-max-200-11-billion-order-ryanair-1681518#.VA6eYqMYvMA.facebook

More information, deliveries start in 2017.

Isn’t it time for a styling update? The Max 200 looks very much like a 1970-model update rather than the essentially new aircraft it is – very dated and very predicatble.

‘Gamechanger?’ Well, how about changing the ghastly blue and yellow interior colours?!