with backlogs in the thousands, including 737max's, this little factoid is not so bad as at first glance. It is a blip unless the max goes far worse for far longer. Any orders taken now do not become deliveries for several years.

(Written on 2019年 05月 20日)(Permalink)

keeping maintenance within the continental usa is preferable, even laudatory

(Written on 2019年 05月 17日)(Permalink)

another piece of bad boeing behavior. Pilots in the end only want, and do demand a predictable, consistent performing machine, and efforts to stiffle that impulse reflect badly on the stiffilers. Those folks at boeing ought to be fired and replaced by folks with more helpful instincts. This includes executives, board memebers, and anybody senior enough to have hobbled the exposure and remediation of the boeing bucking bronco, the Max 737...and done publicly and labeled as such, otherwise more coverup and obfuscation, none of which boeing can further afford

(Written on 2019年 05月 15日)(Permalink)

superficial reportage at best, not written by anybody who knows how to fly anything. unhelpful

(Written on 2019年 05月 15日)(Permalink)

who benefits from getting point to point at these speeds? Very small numbers of very big people get the rewards, and i am not one of those...

(Written on 2019年 05月 14日)(Permalink)

except for the old Lufthansas paint job i don't get all excited about airline exterior paint. Also the old Brannif flying colors was unique. I don't care about inflight personnel uniform changes, i care about seat confort, seat spacing, ontime flights, and that is about it. What does it matter what the heck the colors are?

(Written on 2019年 05月 14日)(Permalink)

a simple traffic stop would have sufficed. Where was the clear thinking, the avoidence of possible violent public event.....???

(Written on 2019年 05月 13日)(Permalink)

this could be no more than a rationalization of the capacity of the airline, not some knee-jerk reaction to the 737max mess. :Unless they order an equivalent number of 350-10's... we shall see.....

(Written on 2019年 05月 09日)(Permalink)

boeing is on a binge of abberant behavior: playing Don Quixote with airbus over subsidies, making waves over the new airbus 220, commiting corporate hari-kari with not being truthful on flaws they knew about in the 737max.... It is fair to ask what can possibly come next. Time for airlines to decide if they really need to do business with the people who run such a corporation. The loss of confidence is no small matter.

(Written on 2019年 05月 09日)(Permalink)

why would they fly to caracas, unless they hae some way to repatriate their revenues and profits, unlike Delta and American.? seems futile....

(Written on 2019年 05月 08日)(Permalink)