It's a very uninformed thing to do, driven by media hysteria.

"I like to live."

See, hysteria. Boeing hysteria traces back to nobody bothering to read the accident reports for the 737MAX crashes.

It's not the Boeing that kills you. It's the pilot.

US air travel safety per passenger mile is excellent.

People are terrible at threat recognition.

The pilot will do all possible, within the constraints placed upon the pilot by Boeings's design and manufacturing processes, to keep the passengers safe. I agree 1000% (yes, a thousand) with that.

#12 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2024-03-24 07:46 PM | REPLY

This thread only exists because of the second 737MAX crash, where the pilots ignored the stick shaker, overspeed audio warning, and the visual overspeed indicator, and killed everybody.

The only thing dangerous about US air travel is the drive to the airport.

Maybe your comments should be more discerning and descriptive when they say "media" then

#10 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2024-03-24 07:42 PM | FLAG:

"Ignorant, media fueled hysteria for people with poor threat analysis."

And with the recent cluster of incidents all involving Boeing aircraft

#19 | POSTED BY JOE AT 2024-03-25 08:42 AM | FLAG:

Half the A320neo fleet is grounded and has been for 5 months while they repair at least 700 manufacturer (P&W) defective engines.

So yes, that's a Media Fueled Hysteria if you're freaking out of a Boeing label and don't know about fleetwide Airbus groundings of the 737 competitor airframe.

Conservatives always tell me this is how capitalism is supposed to work.

#20 | POSTED BY JOE AT 2024-03-25 09:41 AM | FLAG:

Those are joint-ventures with Boeing.

sarcasm on the Emb-Boe joint ventures aside, and the regional jets being extremely safe but not quite relevant to the 737/A320 routes, they still don't know all of the effected A320 and the grounding of them keeps expanding and expanding. So if you're worried about flying in a 737, realistically the A320 isn't an option either, right? Because we're rational but somehow scared of the safety travel system in the US, which isn't at all influenced by very selective media coverage.

You seem so adamant that Boeing is safe despite what we see and hear

#28 | POSTED BY RONNIE68 AT 2024-03-25 12:29 PM | REPLY

No stock. Turned down a job there 10 years ago, I never liked the corporate culture.

No airliner has had a fatal crash in the US since 2009. It was a Bombardier Q400. If what you see and hear is that US air travel is unsafe, you are in a bubble of media fueled hysteria.

hey spent more money on dividend reinvestment than research and development and and public safety.

#29 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY AT 2024-03-25 12:58 PM | FLAG:

Name the commercial aircraft manufacturers that didn't do that.

As soon as Covid hit, Airbus did exactly what Boeing did. Cut R&D and went into Stock Buyback mode and have continued since.

"The share buyback is undertaken pursuant to the general authority conferred on the Airbus SE Board of Directors by the 13th resolution to repurchase up to 10% of Airbus SE's issued share capital by the Annual General Meeting of shareholders of Airbus SE on 19 April 2023"

and since people are scared of flying Boeing because of Boeing's corrupt corporate culture, your alternative again, is Airbus, with it's corrupt corporate culture investigated from 2004 to 2016, by multiple countries, and they had to buy their way out of criminal charges.. and these completely rational and informed people jump off that 737 to fly in an A320 which is part of an ever expanding grounding for engine failures. I'm not the greatest pilot, but overriding the many flight systems that effect the tail is 1 button, and engine failures can't be over-ridden, and you have no idea if the plane you're on should have been grounded or not.

"The settlement with the authorities in France, Britain and the United States closes four years of investigations into accusations that Airbus, between 2004 and 2016, used intermediaries to bribe public officials in numerous countries to buy its planes and satellites. The episode had tarnished the company's reputation and forced it to make sweeping changes to top management. It also allows Airbus to avoid criminal charges that, if proved, could have crippled its business by prohibiting the company from seeking public contracts in Europe and the United States. Airbus will be subject to three years of "light compliance monitoring" in France, the nation's anticorruption agency said Friday."

Reason has been thrown out the window in favor of media hysteria.