Imagine the worst possible task at your job — no matter what you do for a living. The hardest, slowest, most frustrating, and least satisfying kind of work.
That’s what the B737 is for us.
There are just so many versions and permutations: different winglets, engine types, scimitars, fuselage lengths… and I’m not even talking yet about the 350+ hand-painted liveries — each of which has to be painted individually, one by one.
It’s not that we’re not doing it. We are.
But it will take time.
I did the math somewhere already:
Let’s say we need half a day for a very simple livery (assuming we already have PNG resources). That’s 175 working days just to finish the liveries.
That means one person would have to do nothing else but paint liveries for 5 months straight .
That same person also creates aircraft models — so effectively, aircraft development pauses for at least 6 months.
And when it’s finally done?
The first question will be:
“Where’s the A33X family? What a disappointment.”