Having the public lose trust in the safety of flying is absolutely not something you want to happen. This could have devastating effects and I think enough is enough and the government needs to step in and take over running the airlines. It’s too important to leave gold hoarding dragons in charge of it.
Why promote flying? Why not invest heavily in really fast ground transportation? Let’s build a bullet train between major hubs so people have a choice. If there’s a serious competitor to flying, Boeing will have to improve or they’ll lose a ton of business.
If the government takes over airlines or airplane manufacturing, we’ll just end up with lots of cronyism.
I say start with LA to SF and LA to LV. The current infra there sucks, and there’s a lot of worthwhile stops along the way. Then perhaps upgrade NYC to DC and related lines. It’ll be incredibly expensive to roll out, but should be very cheap to run and maintain.
Yeah, here we go. Trains are so much more pleasant. If they weren’t 10 times as slow I would never fly.
If they weren’t 10 times as slow I would never fly.
We have the tech for high speed rail, we just refused to build it because of lobbying (bribery), regulatory capture, and forced dependence on cars and planes.
You gonna build a bullet train across the ocean?
No, planes are good for that. But there’s a ton of domestic travel that could easily be replaced with a decent rail network.
Ekranoplan when?
Ekranobahn.
Having the public lose trust in the safety of flying is something I absolutely want to happen. This will have devastating effects on carbon emissions, and push more people (and governments) towards trains.
Devastating is a bit of an exaggeration with it being responsible for a whooping 3% (at most) of emissions and arguably helping raise the albedo a bit with their contrails.
So it would help a bit, it wouldn’t be a game changer though (except if you live near an airport, sound is another pollution that’s often ignored).
I would rather we start using blimos what can we do towards that
The government has already stepped in several times. If you’re in the mood to get mad, read up on the results of these interventions. Basically, Boeing was almost forced to deal with actual oversight, but was able to convince the government at the last minute that they could handle the oversight themselves internally (thanks to the wonderful process of lobbying of course)
The government already heavily subsidizes the “struggling” industry (that somehow still makes outrageous profits). The government really should exercise more control over the industry, given that they (we) pay a very high annual price for it to exist.
They used to… one of carters biggest blunders.
Boeing isn’t an airline…
Come on, it only effects like 1/4 of the economy.
- Normal people work on planes
- Government takes over
- Government hires contractors
- Contractors are normal people
- Profit
Welcome to this Boeing 737, thanks to government regulations each seat is fitted with a cop that will feel you up through the flight. If you don’t put your phone in airplane mode he or she will shoot you in the back 10 times only. 7 crashes per year is the legal limit and we already had 6 so you are all lucky!
I’m just waiting for the warcries of WWIII so I can buy Boeing stock as it bottoms out before daddy Warbucks saves them, and hopefully me! 🤞
I’m watching it since the door fell off, but it’s barely moving. It’s still in the price range it was in the last 4 years 🤷
They’re down like 50% since December…?
yes, but the door fell off while it was already halfway down that slope. in fact, days after the door fell off, it stopped falling until about march. so i assume this is within it’s normal mid term volatility. when you look at the last 3 or 4 years, it’s going up and down around the range it’s in now. so if you buy now, considering only it’s past developments, it’s completely uncertain where it will go.
I’m just hoping fares go down so I can get s cheap holiday. As long as it cradhea on the way home I’m fine with it
Boeing’s hitman:
I’ve had a lot of trouble searching for a concrete answer to this, but does anyone know what percentage of commercial jets in the US are made by Boeing? I know it’s a duopoly between them and Airbus, but to what extent is Boeing’s domination?
Unsubstantiated guess, but based on a cursory search for flights on Delta, it seems like 90% are Boeing.
We’ve got a turd in the punch bowl
