Recent incidents involving Boeing aircraft have spooked nervous travelers, with some going so far as to rebook flights to get on a plane made by a different manufacturer. The travel search engine Kayak says it has seen a spike in users taking advantage of an option that filters out specific plane models
"When one door closes, another one opens." -Boeing
" Deonandan (@deonandan) March 16, 2024
It's a very uninformed thing to do, driven by media hysteria. #2 | Posted by sitzkrieg
Perhaps the concern is overblown, but when you have "2 ex-Boeing staffers said they wouldn't fly on the 737 Max, citing pressure to 'rush the planes out the door'" www.businessinsider.com
Reputation means something, and Boeing has badly damaged theirs.
@#14 ... Boeing went to great lengths to avoid having the 737 Max classed as a new design rather than a modification. Saved on training time. ...
Not only that, but safety waivers....
Boeing withdraws request for safety waiver for the 737 Max 7 (January 2024)
www.cbsnews.com
... Boeing has withdrawn a request for the Federal Aviation Administration to grant a safety waiver for the 737 Max 7 after the manufacturer reported an issue with the Max's anti-ice system last year.
"We have informed the FAA that we are withdrawing our request for a time-limited exemption relating to the engine inlet deicing system on the 737-7," Boeing said Monday in a statement. "While we are confident that the proposed time-limited exemption for that system follows established FAA processes to ensure safe operation, we will instead incorporate an engineering solution that will be completed during the certification process."
The withdrawal follows pressure from Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, who last week sent a letter to the FAA demanding it reject Boeing's request.
"While Boeing never should have sought this exemption to put another new aircraft with a known safety defect into service in the first place, I'm both relieved and appreciative that they are putting the flying public's safety first by withdrawing this petition," Duckworth said Monday. "I hope this decision marks the beginning of a turnaround in Boeing's safety culture moving forward and I encourage the company to put its full focus into fixing the known safety flaw on the MAX 7 and other MAX aircraft that could lead to catastrophic consequences for passengers and crew."
The FAA in August 2023 issued an Airworthiness Directive, a regulation designed to fix an issue with a plane, that "was prompted by a report indicating that use of engine anti-ice (EAI) in dry air for more than five minutes during certain environmental and operational conditions can cause overheating of the engine inlet inner barrel beyond the material design limit, resulting in failure of the engine inlet inner barrel and severe engine inlet cowl damage."
The 737 Max 7, the smallest of the four 737 Max variants, is currently uncertified, but the issue also exists on 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft already flying. ...
Wow.
Conservatives always tell me this is how capitalism is supposed to work.
#20 | POSTED BY JOE AT 2024-03-25 09:41 AM | FLAG:
It's an idea of how capitalism works, where the actors are prone to irrational behavior but the market works itself out. Thesis: How can markets be efficient if economic actors are irrational? Irrationality is the result of high subjective costs of transaction, which can be reduced through a variety of social and cognitive mechanisms. These mechanisms allow for market efficiency even with actors prone to highly irrational decision-making.
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