Do you trust Boeing with your life?
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Anonymous
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I would not fly a Max or a Dreamliner.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13185555/amp/Boeing-whistleblower-warning-josh-barnett.html |
Anonymous
| Aircraft can (and do) change at the last minute all the time. Just because you don’t book an aircraft doesn’t mean that it won’t be swapped in. Unless you choose not to fly, it’s pretty difficult to avoid entirely. |
Anonymous
| Things are so bad United doesn’t even want them anymore: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/united-ceo-tells-boeing-to-stop-making-its-long-delayed-max-10s/ar-BB1jLmZT |
Anonymous
I generally agree with most of what you post. I will say that the bolded is complex- because of how big the investments are required for commercial planes, it is natural that only a few companies would have the capital necessary to take on the risk in developing/building planes. Airbus only exists because of the concerted effort of the EU governments to create it and finance it. Some place, like the A220, have become too expensive for non-Big 2 companies to develop, so the only option to get them built (and the A220 is considered an excellent plane) is to have one of the Big 2 take them over. Look at how much money Airbus lost on the A380. Every other plane manufacturer would have gone bankrupt from that. All this is to say that the nature of the business (incredibly high capital investments, huge risk, huge barriers to entry) means it will naturally go towards monopoly/oligopoly. The best option may be to stand up a US equivalent to Airbus to offer more competition- but only the US government would likely be able to do that. And the odds of getting Congressional support for that are lower than a snowball's chance in hell. |
Anonymous
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Within the US, I fly on whatever airline/plane gets me where I'm going.
There's so many other things way more likely to happen than being in a plane crash. And even with the string of recent United freak incidents, the planes all landed safely. |
Anonymous
Hardly. All candidates must still meet the FAA mandated minimums and pass all of the same tests, regardless or race or gender. |
Anonymous
| I picked a random date in April to fly to LAX. Across all 4 carriers (Alaska, United, Delta, American) and the 8 direct flights, 6 are on Boeing and 2 are on Airbus. I guess that's some choice, but not a lot. |
Anonymous
Yeah but some of them are gonna be black, let's be honest that is PP's real issue. |
Anonymous
Meeting minimum standards and passing a test doesn't mean that you're the most qualified candidate. |
Anonymous
And you could book the Airbus and then they swap it for a Boeing. Happens all the time. |
Anonymous
| I just checked our spring break plane 737-800. Is that similar to the Max? |
Anonymous
No, that’s an earlier, pre-Max version of the 737. Also, not sure if it’s true, but I read somewhere that airlines weren’t going to identify Max planes and would instead just go with 737. |
Anonymous
I have my first Dreamliner flight this weekend. All of my wide body flights have always been on 777, 767 and 747. Interestingly, have never been on an Airbus wide body. |
Anonymous
| What if you have a flight booked - expensive, whole family, summer, Eurioe. What would you do? Cancel? Or still take the flight? It’s not refundable… |
Anonymous
^^ it’s the 777-300ER |