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?
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...