Qatar's A320neo hassles result in Boeing order
 

It's Qatars largest ever order.

Read more:http://m.atwonline.com/airframes/qat...-60-737-max-8s

Interesting considering B737MAX hasn't been delivered to anyone as yet.

I was thinking the same thing, Greg. The A320 was reliable until the neo... and even then, several other airlines are operating them with no major issues.

There are only four operators of the Neo at present, of which the three P&W powered operators have all had issues. There were 25 engine less Neos at Airbus in June waiting a fix, only 24 have been delivered.

Al Baker is a hard man to please. I would hate to deal with him under any circumstances, and who's to say that the MAX won't have problems as well!

I count 7 or 8 operators, but seems I've missed hearing about a lot of these issues. What's been happening with them? I know LH is (or at least was) restricting theirs to domestic Germany flights, and I believe the startup time has been talked about.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...e-immi-427892/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_PW1000G

The data I had must have been from early August, as there are now 7.

Air Asia took their first first on Sept 7 and now has two, both CFM powered.
Interesting Latam took their P&W power First Neo August 30 and have not taken any more. Aercap delivered their first to Volaris Sept 12. Go air took their first in June and only have 2.

Along with the startup issues, and subsequent hydraulic issues which are believed to be fixed, Qatars frustration has also been with engine cooling issues overall (this was part of the startup problem), which obviously affects them more than most airlines.

The Qatar LOI for the MAX is just to pressure Airbus to work faster on a NEO fix.

We seen to forget that the B787 has teething problems as well.

Grounded when Lithium batteries were catching fire.