[CondoleezzaProtege]

And instead of investing in a legacy of innovation and expending energies making NEW models of planes…they are playing even more catch-up now - with the ‘updated’ old ones that keep running into issues.

[CodeToad]

Yep. It was a terribly short-sighted decision not to just create a new model. In fact, there were research designs to do just that but Boeing wanted to compete with the Airbus 320 ASAP.