Boeing’s problems were as bad as you thought
Boeing’s problems were as bad as you thought
Experts and whistleblowers testified before Congress today. The upshot? "It was all about money."
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I had a flight planned with Air Canada from Montreal to Halifax in May. The first flight was with a Boeing 737 max 8. When I found out it was too late. I couldn't change my flight or cancel without losing the entire price of the ticket minus the taxes. That's a few hundred dollars. I was just about ready to say fuck it and cancel and just take the losses.
Thankfully, there was a change in my flight time even a month before the flight was planned. That gave me the right to change my flight without any penalty. I called them right away to switch to a non Boeing flight.
There's no way I'm ever getting into a Boeing unless I have no other choice.
Honestly, at this point, air travel is so uncomfortable and unpleasant in general that I just avoid it unless absolutely necessary at this point. The only thing I will give air travel now over what it was when I was a kid is that they banned smoking. That's pretty much it. Everything else is worse.
Yeah. I love travelling and visiting new places, but the flight is the absolute worst part. There's absolutely zero comfort. It's inhumane.
Ironically, air quality on flights has gone down since the smoking ban since they no longer need to air out and can just recirculate the air.
That's actually not true at all. Bleed air from the engines is constantly pumped into the cabin to maintain pressurization, and what air is recirculated is pumped through HEPA filters. Airplane cabins on a properly maintained modern aircraft have surprisingly clean air.
I've heard that before too and I don't doubt it. But being stuck in a plane for six hours with people smoking smelled worse than it does now. That would be the improvement part. Obviously they should have kept the air scrubbing anyway, but I'm guessing that would have cost them extra pennies, so they said fuck it.