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You put your life in many other people's hands every time you step into an airport. If you use Chickens, Goats, and Passengers Airlines, expect not to make it t
by errcorrectcode 5y ago
You put your life in many other people's hands every time you step into an airport. If you use Chickens, Goats, and Passengers Airlines, expect not to make it to your destination in one piece.
737 NG (-6xx (736), -7xx, -8xx (738), -9xx (739)), MAX, and 787 are reasons not to fly on Boeing equipment. They have both obscure (Ducommun) and well-known history of cutting corners in design, testing, manufacturing, and who knows where else. Furthermore, Boeing pilots have huge cognitive dissonance issues around these matters because their salaries depend on it (remember Upton Sinclair's quote). They will overconfidently swear on their mother's graves that their equipment is "safe" on blind faith while unable to face the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Boeing isn't as bad as kit planes made in someone's backyard or Tupolev's, but the cutthroat profit-obsession culture is different than at Airbus in terms of priorities.
Human-piloted aircraft for routine transportation makes no sense. In terms of safety and ecology for long-distance travel, trains will dominate in the end because flying adds inherent risks and consumes much more energy.
- thethimble 5y agoI disagree with so many things in this post… 1. Commercial airline travel is significantly safer than driving on a per mile or per hour basis 2. This flight was from Dubai to Washington. I don’t think there’s any train routes between these two cities.
- errcorrectcode 5y agoThen you're making a strawman just to be disagreeable without adding anything constructive: 1. I never recommended driving. It's awful for the environment and extremely unsafe. 2. Transoceanic train lines. Hyperloop or similar. Do you have anything else to add?
- josephcsible 5y ago> Transoceanic train lines These don't exist, and probably won't for the foreseeable future. What should we all do until then?
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- ohashi 5y agointernet shitposting?
- Cookingboy 5y agoTeleportation, duh!
- anaganisk 5y agoOh yeah, lets jump the Musk bandwagon, and wait for 100 years before he figures out how impractical it is and then go back to flying again.
- anticensor 5y agoDid you forget BFR, which is a variation of Starship to do intercontinental commuter trips?
- josephcsible 5y agoEven the fastest passenger trains are quite slow compared to average airliners, and there's a lot of places connected by air that don't have train tracks between them. Air travel should stay dominant until both of those things change.
- jhugo 5y agoOnly beyond a certain distance — there are a few routes in China and Europe where the train will get you from A to B faster than an aircraft due to the aircraft's speed advantage mostly being in cruise flight. If you take into account the time spent in the airport at either side, there are actually a lot of such routes.
- mdoms 5y ago> Human-piloted aircraft for routine transportation makes no sense. In terms of safety and ecology for long-distance travel, trains will dominate in the end because flying adds inherent risks and consumes much more energy. OK cool I'll just take a train.... uhhh absolutely nowhere as I live on an island with extremely limited inter-city rail.
- errcorrectcode 5y ago
- throwawayboise 5y agoAre you deliberately ignoring the catastrophic, multiple-fatality train wrecks over the history of rail transportation?
- chrissnell 5y agoYou, clearly, have never flown EK. I have six flights in EK first class under my belt. I've taken showers on their airplanes. I've enjoyed $1,500 bottles of 1964 port wine and cognac poured generously. I've eaten caviar and socialized at the onboard lounge. Believe me, EK is nothing like a "chicken and goat airline". It's world class all the way.
- School-Cotton 5y agoThe fact that their service in first class is luxurious (which nobody is denying) doesn’t necessarily imply that their pilots are good.
- jhugo 5y agoSure, but the reference to chickens and goats in the parent comment indicates a severe lack of knowledge about Emirates, the UAE, and (I would venture a guess) perhaps most of the world outside the USA...
- anaganisk 5y agoWhat makes you think emirates doesn’t have good pilots? Do you have any source for that? Emirates is not even a budget airline, like RYAN AIR. I mean unless you are the one who trained all emirates pilots, I don’t think you should be calling them a goat airline because an incident happened. If you look deep, every airline and even Airbus had issues. >The maiden flight of A320 Air France 296: Official reports concluded that the pilots flew too low, too slow, failed to see the forest and accidentally flew into it. The captain, Michel Asseline, disputed the report and claimed an error in the fly-by-wire computer prevented him from applying thrust and pulling up. In the aftermath of the crash, there were allegations that investigators had tampered with evidence, specifically the aircraft's flight recorders ("black boxes").
- crooked-v 5y ago...except in pilot training, apparently.