Any US airport that involves foreign flights coming requiring customs is a disaster, JFK, MIA, LAX, SFO you can easily spend 1 hour plus going through the whole ridiculous ritual. You should go through the machines and straight through, with human supervision required for “special cases”.

(Written on 2019/05/18)(Permalink)

So this appears to be a XXI century perfect storm. You take “the workhorse of the skies” you add a whole series of profit maximizing requirements and find that it will not fly. Just like VW Mercedes et al with the emissions fraud, you get the software people to make the thing fly. You kinda hide some of the embroidery out of embarrassment, collusion or criminal neglect but it happens. People die, you go into denial, it becomes clear that the FAA does not do their job (who needs regulation anyway right? Yuck yuck..well only when dealing with humans). What was the motivation behind this whole sordid affair now affecting a once great company? Money. Not for future research, not to better compete with Airbus but to reward the Board, the key executives, the major shareholders. Sordid is to kind a word for this.

(Written on 2019/05/18)(Permalink)

How can safety be an “option “ on a plane worth tens of millions. Welcome to todays World where the pursuit of profit turns normal people into cretins. Then people preach about not needing regulations. The only people who need regulations are humans, because, given the opportunity, they will lie, cheat and steal to get ahead. Not all, but enough to really count.

(Written on 2019/03/22)(Permalink)

Part of the problem may be that the configuration of the plane, with the new engine placement, has made the plane only able to FBW, assuming perfect software and sensors. Pilots cannot handle the plane manually because the feel is strange. Boeing looks bad on this one. Imagine degree of flight training required being part of the pricing?

(Written on 2019/03/15)(Permalink)

A non controversy, the pilot is very aware of his plane’s situation, the ATC is aware of everything else, hence clear communication, mutual respect (duh) and teamwork.

(Written on 2018/12/14)(Permalink)

They cannot find the black box right off the coast and 30m of water?! I dont believe them.

(Written on 2018/12/14)(Permalink)

Regardless about the noise about the nonevent in the checkin process, surely not unusual in today’s world, The fact that the pilot decided to punish this person, a passenger, a customer, once on the plane, just because he could, shows you how people, even airline pilots with the responsibilty and authority their position gives them, act like tin pot dictators, just because they can. Common sense, another absent quality today, would have gone a long way to resolving this nonissue. Now we are all talking about it, and as typical again today, inventing facts to suit our arguments.

(Written on 2017/10/20)(Permalink)

Nobody, in a free country, deserves to be manhandled by goons with uniforms.

(Written on 2017/09/29)(Permalink)

Boeing, as an integral part of the Military Industrial complex receives billions in taxpayer money for "defense" contracts which, in effect, are subsidies way beyond whatBombardier and Airbus receive.

(Written on 2017/09/29)(Permalink)

I recently flew SW was ok, Delta good and American lame, as usual. But this cannot be a "World" survey since no foreign airlines are mentioned, if they were included SW would not be in the top 10.

(Written on 2017/08/18)(Permalink)