I’m astonished that the echo chamber between Boeing and the FAA is so oblivious to their customers that they’re plowing on ahead even prior to this latest scandal.
I’m not flying with any airline that can’t guarantee my flight won’t be on one of these. I doubt I’m alone.
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Or you could just avoid all 737s.
I don’t see repeated crashes in the article.
You have to outweigh the cost of retraining all pilots for an alternative plane. This whole mess happened because that is something the airlines really want to avoid and Boeing was greedy enough to offer it.
How much would you wager on that?
There are clearly quite a few people who are determined to avoid flying on a 737 Max (or avoid Boeing altogether) and also seem to expect this to be a widespread view. While I can understand the former (though not hold it myself), there is no realistic prospect of the latter.
I can't verify the safety of airliners either, but so long as they are flown by an on-board crew of professional pilots, there will be a body of informed* people with a vested interest in keeping things safe.
* Though not always fully informed, which is, of course, a big part of the 737 Max debacle.
A lot of people won’t fly on these planes, but far from a majority I’m quite sure.
Those same people will also be aghast if something goes wrong in the future as “they” were supposed to have made sure the planes were safe.
People still want to believe in The Magical Them.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-delta-...