The max will be the nail in the coffin for Boeing. It's getting very competitive in it's capacity space.
Was reading about that earlier. Sounds very worrying, but the FT reckons not as damaging as the crashs when it was stalling due to this latest issue cause my manufacturing rather than design flaws. Will surely still make a lot of people reticent to fly on them though.
You dont have a choice of planes that you can fly with unless you check the airline's fleet first? But most short-haul flights will be dominated by the 737s; and if you are lucky with newer ones like the Max.
Boing or Scarebus
@Raoul said earlier in the thread that he avoided any airline using the Max on a recent flight and he won't be the only one. Agree it depends if you have price flexibility and the patience to check, but the number of Max's as opposed to regular 737s seems very low still.
Don't forget guys, "it's never been safer to fly"
Guy in the aviation sector I know did the same thing.
I just see flying as a means to an end, as many others do, and it would've been way less interesting moving to Asia if I wouldn't fly.
Boeing will be fine in the long term. Who other than Airbus can challenge them? China's COMAC is still far away.
The vast majority of orders are from US airlines who have to buy Boeing, and ultra low cost or questionable airlines who are after the massive discounts Boeing have to give to sell these things. Theyve hardly sold any to reputable legacy airlines outside the US and virtually none have been delivered. Airbus has cleared up with the A320Neo and A350.
Were you saying Boeing or Booooo-ing?
No wonder he's so occupied with scammers... Acting all alive, nearly had us fooled.
Yep, takes one to know one.
Boing as in boing into the ground
You trust any company for this?
Not really, but no 787 has crashed yet, it's made of new materials and the first to use a battery for everything onboard. Issues were a lot more expected and less fatal than on the 737 Max. This is just supposed to the newest iteration of a plane that has flown safely for many decades...
I trust that some countries supervise them better than others. As I said probably being dramatic.
It wasn't great when one of them caught fire in front of an airport full of people in Boston, and then another one did it again at Heathrow a few months later. Lots of talk at the time that had it been any other aircraft at least one of them would have been scrapped rather than repaired. Boeing's last two aircraft have been disasters on launch.
Boing suggests bouncing though - not sure there's much of that going on after a crash!
I was half joking and agree fully with the bolded.
There's definitely a cultural thing for working in the US. When the company I work for got bought out by a large US company, they were trying to implement things that were illegal under UK (EU really) law and it was pretty obvious that their way of working was purely for profit and the company. It's not great here, but there's definitely more thought about people and making sure that what's produced is of a good standard rather than just about profit.
My friend had the same, cutting corners, starting treating staff with no respect, trying to cut annual leave etc
The worst one I had soon after the take-over was when they wanted me to call somebody whilst they were at the hospital for a family bereavement and get them to book it off as annual leave so it was recorded
