Problems have plagued the manufacturer even after two fatal crashes, and many current and former employees blame its focus on making planes more quickly.
  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
    32·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • Smoogs@lemmy.world
    245·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      23·
      8 months ago

      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.

      • dan1101
        5·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          131·
          8 months ago

          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.

          • dan1101
            3·
            8 months ago

            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.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          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.