The Boeing Max 10 Takes Flight


Boeing 737 Max-10 airborne

Boeing's largest 737 Max variant, the -10, took flight. Is it enough for Boeing to take on the mighty Airbus A321neo and all its variants? Edward "Ned" Russell and Madhu Unnikrishnan get into it and why Boeing may need to pull the trigger on a clean-sheet mid-market aircraft (or not).  Meanwhile, American has a major pilot training bottleneck, and Europe's low-cost airline sector is mixing things up.

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