Who Is Flying Boeing These Days?

[toobfreak]

Pretty hard to fly without flying a Boeing jet! Damned if you could get me on one though! Boeing has a real problem:

LESSEE (just recently):

1. Numerous issues with the Boeing Max jetliner.
2. Door falls off Boeing jet.
3. Now a landing wheel just fell off another.
4. 346 just killed in two major crashes.
5. As we speak, the Boeing Starliner, years behind schedule, limps up to the ISS, barely makes it there, and now two astronauts are stranded there as they run tests trying to figure out how unsafe the ship is to bring them back!

Boeing is a deeply embedded government/military/space contractor. Anyone see a problem here?

Boeing plane incidents timeline: Full list of 9 issues in 3 months

Issues with Boeing crafts have received renewed scrutiny following a viral incident in January.

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https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239132703/boeing-timeline-737-max-9-controversy-door-plug

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/business/boeing-history-of-problems/index.html

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[EvilCat Breath]

This is what DEI gets you.

 

[Sunni Man]

I'd still rather fly Boeing than some other countries aircraft.

 

[ESay]

The thing is either Boeing or Airbus. You don't have too many choices to fly on long, or even medium range distances. Maybe the Chinese will come up with something soon.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

This is what DEI gets you.

This is where putting quarterly profits over quality control gets you.

This is where spending more money on stock buybacks than engineering gets you.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Pretty hard to fly without flying a Boeing jet! Damned if you could get me on one though! Boeing has a real problem:

LESSEE (just recently):

1. Numerous issues with the Boeing Max jetliner.
2. Door falls off Boeing jet.
3. Now a landing wheel just fell off another.
4. 346 just killed in two major crashes.
5. As we speak, the Boeing Starliner, years behind schedule, limps up to the ISS, barely makes it there, and now two astronauts are stranded there as they run tests trying to figure out how unsafe the ship is to bring them back!

Boeing is a deeply embedded government/military/space contractor. Anyone see a problem here?

Boeing plane incidents timeline: Full list of 9 issues in 3 months

Issues with Boeing crafts have received renewed scrutiny following a viral incident in January.

www.newsweek.com

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239132703/boeing-timeline-737-max-9-controversy-door-plug

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/business/boeing-history-of-problems/index.html

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I fly whatever plane the airline puts me on. I fly Delta almost exclusively and trust in their own internal quality control.

 

[JoeB131]

Pretty hard to fly without flying a Boeing jet! Damned if you could get me on one though! Boeing has a real problem:

LESSEE (just recently):

1. Numerous issues with the Boeing Max jetliner.
2. Door falls off Boeing jet.
3. Now a landing wheel just fell off another.
4. 346 just killed in two major crashes.
5. As we speak, the Boeing Starliner, years behind schedule, limps up to the ISS, barely makes it there, and now two astronauts are stranded there as they run tests trying to figure out how unsafe the ship is to bring them back!

Boeing is a deeply embedded government/military/space contractor. Anyone see a problem here?

Boeing plane incidents timeline: Full list of 9 issues in 3 months

Issues with Boeing crafts have received renewed scrutiny following a viral incident in January.

www.newsweek.com

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/20/1239132703/boeing-timeline-737-max-9-controversy-door-plug

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/business/boeing-history-of-problems/index.html

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All you wingnuts thought it was wonderful when Boeing broke its union by moving production to the South and hiring non-union labor.

Now these planes are falling apart because Cleetus and Billy-Bob done don't know how make them an airplane, and you are freaking out about flying?

 

[JoeB131]

This is what DEI gets you.

Nope, this is what union-busting gets you.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I fly whatever plane the airline puts me on. I fly Delta almost exclusively and trust in their own internal quality control.

Delta doesn't build their own planes. Boeing builds a lot of them.

Find out of their maintenance crews are DEI compliant.

 

[toobfreak]

I'd still rather fly Boeing than some other countries aircraft.

Normally, I'd agree. but the Airbus has a fairly sterling reputation, other than one Airbus 330 maiden demo flight to show it off to the public where one crashed right after takeoff! I'm pretty sure Airbus pioneered the FBW (fly by wire technology).

 

[toobfreak]

The thing is either Boeing or Airbus. You don't have too many choices to fly on long, or even medium range distances. Maybe the Chinese will come up with something soon.

Yeah, I guess Delta is defunct and the only other significant company I see left is Bombardier in Canada.

 

[toobfreak]

All you wingnuts thought it was wonderful when Boeing broke its union by moving production to the South and hiring non-union labor.
Now these planes are falling apart because Cleetus and Billy-Bob done don't know how make them an airplane, and you are freaking out about flying?

Actually, the problems with Boeing seem related to the Covid shutdowns you idiots engineered in 2020 which fairly crushed the airline industry and has forced Boeing from its once safety and engineering orientation priority to one now of PROFITS by cutting corners trying to make up for lost revenue.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Delta doesn't build their own planes. Boeing builds a lot of them.

Yes, I know they do not build them, but they do maintain them.

Find out of their maintenance crews are DEI compliant.

Your mind is DEI compliant, you have it on the brain and it makes it impossible for you to have a rational, non-partisan thought

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Actually, the problems with Boeing seem related to the Covid shutdowns you idiots engineered in 2020 which fairly crushed the airline industry and has forced Boeing from its once safety and engineering orientation priority to one now of PROFITS by cutting corners trying to make up for lost revenue.

Much further back than that, the start of their downfall was the merger with McDonnell Douglas that allowed the MD higher ups to get a foothold in Boeing.

Since 2007 Boeing has spent more than 44 billion on stock buy backs.

Greed got in the way quality.

 

[ESay]

Yeah, I guess Delta is defunct and the only other significant company I see left is Bombardier in Canada.

Bombardier is owned by Airbus (except of business jets division).