Interesting how they lost so many experienced people by changing the pension rules - it almost sounds like Boeing wanted newer, cheaper people to do the work.
Welcome to Capitalism!
"Move fast and break things"
Move fast and kill people
People are things, aren't they? That's how corporations treat them.
Makes sense in normal software where a bug means someone might have to try again later. Not so much when a bug means hundreds dead.
This is bad news for Boeing. They should probably offer a stock buyback to fix the issue.
Gone are the days of saying “I’m afraid of flying” and someone trying to convince me how safe planes are.
Now everyone just accepts they are a suicide booth like this is a normal progression of technology.
It's not even a safety thing for me. Planes are still much safer than cars despite what Boeing has done. It's the fact that air travel is extremely unpleasant and uncomfortable. Even flying first class can be unpleasant, just less so (I've only done it once when I was offered a cheap upgrade). Airports are loud and filled with obnoxious, entitled people, planes are even louder and there's no way to escape the obnoxious people and you have no leg room.
From now on, I'm taking the chance and driving if I can possibly do so. At least I can get out and stretch my legs and get a coffee that is larger than a thimble.
I don't like how flying is so expensive and while statistically much safer than driving, you have no control over your own fate when in a flying aluminum cylinder tens of thousands of feet in the air.
You don't necessarily have control over your own fate when driving either. You can't stop a drunk driver in a huge SUV from plowing into your car as you're crossing an intersection and they ignore the light.
No, but you have more control. You have control over the condition and maintenance of your own vehicle, and you have a chance to defensively avoid collisions. Like the intersection example, I always try to look both ways at an intersection even when my light is green. If I get on a plane where the pilot is drunk or suicidal and the maintenance was not done to spec, I have no control over that.
Try taking a train!
That is sometimes a possibility, although the nearest Amtrak stations to my home are over an hour's drive and the places Amtrak goes outside the East Coast are pretty limited.
Capitalism in a nutshell.
Capitalism's end goal in a nutshell.
Boeing: the Tesla of aviation
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