But the B737-800 and B737-900 (-ER and non ER) are in current airline service!

Any large order for airliners can only be good news for the company involved and for its employees, but how can types currently in service represent any kind of ‘next generation’?

Marketing hype gone mad….. :rolleyes:

Hi all!
New guy here. I worked at the lazy ‘B’ from 87′ to 98′. Got smart and went out contracting, wish I’d a done it much sooner..:lol:

Anyway the 737 classic was replaced by the ‘next gen.’ Good marketing ploy, name the product in such a way as to always sound current.

I guess the largest difference I saw between the two was the way the aircraft was assembled…using matched pilots holes..eliminated a lot of small and large ‘major assembly’ tooling. Unfortunately, the cost to bring in new machinery to accomplish the matched hole method, offset somewhat the savings from eliminating tooling…