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?
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.