With all the problems occuring for Boeing planes and the airlines that use them, as well as the effects of having diversity enforced upon airlines, which airlines that run in the US are the least affected? Are airlines that use Airbus, for example, also having planes fall out of the sky?
I am thinking of visiting some family cross country. Road trips are expensive nowadays due to the price of gas and lodging. Just curious if there are any airlines/ airplanes that aren't as badly afflicted by progressivism. While we are at it, how bad are modern planes and airlines? As bad as the jokes of "planes falling out of the skies" make it out to be?
Every single aspect of society is infected with DIE. All industries, all education, all media, all government, all military, all banking. All of them.
The only Boeing products affected are the MAX airliners. 757s and 767s are solid (there have been cases of those aircraft being unharmed in 3.5G pullups), 737s outside of the MAX line (so, anything from 737-400 to 737-800) are from when Boeing was run by engineers. The 737s and 787s are okay.
The big issue today is going to be flight crew (who by federal dictate have to be vaxxed) and cabin crew (who are beginning to be all fucking DEI Karens).
Also the Air Traffic Control at every airport is getting gradually worse.
Starliner has valve issues and window covers blowing off. It's not just a few planes. It's endemic to the whole company.
Except for the fact that out of everything I listed, the only thing still in current production is the 787, which is made by a separate division of the company in South Carolina. The 737NG has been out of production for a decade, and the last passenger 757s, 767s, and 777s are all that old or older, and in the case of the -57 and -67, are almost old enough to drink. Boeing 2024 is a giant fuckup, but that doesn't effect the aircraft they produced when the current executives were in elementary school.
Everything after the merger with Mcdonnell Douglas, which happened in 1997 is suspect. The stuff produced after '97 is every 737NG and up,, which all have structural flaws that reduced their lifetime, the 777-200ER and up, and all the 787s. Also they still have unfulfilled orders for 767s.
But I said the problem is endemic to the ENTIRE company. Just ask anyone with HughesNet, or what happened to SeaLaunch.
Wait, there are 757 and 767 in America? Never seen those.
I'm really interested in what this means.
Delta flies 757s and 767s on a lot of their Atlanta-Hub routes. Delta has begged for a 757NG for decades now, and Boeing has literally laughed at them.
And DEI Karens is what it says on the tin: a lot of cabin crews are now doing little speeches before takeoff where they talk about "100% of the crew is a minority or LGBTQ!" But they really mean the cabin crew, because the pilots are (Science forgive me) straight huwyte males.
The 757 looks like a pretty neat plane. Almost as big as the 777 but with the width of a 737. Though my experience with a big 3/3 Airbus is that boarding and leaving is a real pain in the ...
I've seen the videos of this sort of nonsense, but have you actually experienced this in person? I'd be shocked. That is beyond the call of duty of stupid.
We have 767s flying out of Aus, internationally (sadly no more 747s, and I've never seen a 757)...
They're rare, but I've been on at least a couple in my time.
The Qantas 747s a decade ago were the bomb. They were, unironically, fucking great. Which is part of what makes it so sad that they got rid of them...
The biggest threat is air traffic control. Their role is vital to safe air travel and it has been infected with DIE for at least a decade now. A few weeks ago there were several near misses that would have caused hundreds of deaths.
Sadly, it'll take something like that to change anything but even when it happens I doubt they'll fire Jamal and Shaniqwa. They'll blame it on anything except the incompetence of DIE hires.
It's not just your doubt, was there not a case of a notoriously inadequate ATC guy who wasn't fired (in TEXAS) because he was black?
And the black wamman who almost ran two aircraft into each other on the ground.
There is a lot of redundancy in safety checks for flights. Both in personnel performance and mechanical maintenance. Right now we're seeing a big uptick in "minor" incidents (non-critical mechanical issues appearing, ATC near-misses/instruction error, piloting that strains the aircraft triggering repair checks), but fatal incidents are still extremely rare.
Incompetency is shaving deeper into that redundancy than it used to, but we haven't yet met the critical mass where errors frequently align enough to put lives in danger.
I've had to fly a few times recently myself and my only negative experience so far has been what seemed like a higher than used to be number of delays waiting for a runway, maybe indicating a few more minor unexpected things had gone wrong at the airport that day.
I did manage to stick with Airbuses though. Because fuck Boeing anyway, even if most of their planes still just about function they've still probably killed at least two innocent Americans on the ground.
I've also flown a good deal recently. No issues (though also no MAX planes) for me, except for being rewarded with cold drops of water when sitting in the emergency exit row. Admittedly, all European airlines, but given how bad European airlines are, I can't imagine American ones could possibly be worse.
I’d imagine it’s all over which sucks because I have to fly to California later this year but I can’t help but worry about that
Yes, but they're not really airlines. They're commuter planes. No nationwide coverage, need to hop between different airports, can be a noisier, less comfortable ride unless you go jets.
Also costs lots of money. But that's the goal, after all. The wealthy and well connected get to travel, you technically can too but put your life in a 41% pre-suicide tranny pilot.
This reason alone is why I'd only travel across oceans on other country operated flights NOT using Boeing.
Boeing seems to be the one affected so much their planes are unsafe, American Airlines operators are unsafe thanks to who they hire to fly them.
For the Mexico trip I took a bit ago, our flights to and from Mexico to the US were on American Airlines branded Airbus A321s. The American Eagle flights to and from my home airport to the major airports were on non-Boeing airplanes but I forgot the exact brands
I thought this exact same thing: is Airbus really less bad, or do we just hear less about it?
Regarding the second part: as you no doubt know, flying is still orders of magnitude safer than driving, which is not to justify the way they are making it less safe. I try to avoid 737 MAX planes, which is not difficult because basically only Ryanair uses them, but I'd rather take them than drive.
Safety isn't a pure numbers game. The risk associated with each depends on how often you do either activity, and where.
When driving:
You are in full control. Perhaps you have less confidence in your ability than you do an unknown pilot + unknown ATC operators, but when there's a problem at least you know there may be something you can do about it - even if you'll only be given a few seconds to react - vs. an airplane where you can only pray.
In the event of catastrophic systems failure (whether the machine or the operator) the chance of death in a ground car is lower as you are not literally falling out of the sky.
Airlines are still pretty safe though, especially compared to the 80's and 90's.
I think this is exactly why people are more scared to fly on planes than to drive themselves. They think, in part rightly so, that as long as they don't drive like a complete maniac, they're pretty much safe when driving. However, there can always be a mechanical failure of the car, or a drunk driver crashing into you with 200 km/hour, so even if you are correct that your driving is impeccable (which, to be fair, is rarely the case) there are still considerable risks.
Yes. Good thing that only very rarely happens.
Small charter companies still seem to be mostly immune to the DEI nonsense. Find a few people that are going to the same airport and see how low you can get the per-seat cost.
Still probably going to be more than a coach seat on a major airline.
Or take the train.
I plan to wait for DIE to die with the left wing after trump takes office and allows the world to see that the world is fed up with left wing retardation. Once meritocracy restored, I'll take flights again.
Is Amtrak an option for you, instead..?
I realise that it's slow, expensive (I think) and not always very good, depending on area, but if I was only going a few states, to cities covered by it, I would use that...
Crappy as I'm told Amtrak is, it is unironically considerably better than most of the rail network in Australia (where it even still exists, these days)...