I'll never fly in a Boeing again after hearing this. Unless the ceo gets arrested 🤔
Kayak lets you search via plane model fyi
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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How about customers just flat out refuse to fly on Boeing planes?
The fact that several airlines let you filter out plane models indicates people are indeed doing that. Airbus: no fuss; no muss.
At what part of the trip. When boarding? You think the airline will accommodate? You already paid.
The airline will accommodate just fine: “Oh, you don’t want to fly? Too bad, the exit is that way.”
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i can't find it online, but im reasonably certain i heard an interview with this guy on Canadian public radio several years ago that really shook me. he talked basically about how he wouldn't fly on a Boeing plane, knowing what he knows and having seen what he'd seen, stuff like quality rejected parts getting taken back into inventory to meet quotas. the takeaway for me was that the quality control system that had previously worked so well was an invention of equal or possibly higher importance to any kind of aerodynamic innovation present on those planes. i work in an analogous role (in a different industry) and i really do take it more seriously after having heard the interview. nobody likes the work of quality assurance and you'll never see someone doing a non-conformance report on TV but it's a necessary condition for planes to stay in the sky. RIP to a real one and if he got murdered then i hope the industry burns
Neat, I'm jumping on a Boeing 737-700 in about 8 hours. Nice knowin ya while it lasted.
That feel was created before they started cutting corners. You should be fine.
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They should really make some sort of incentive to keep these people alive. Like if a whistle blower dies before the verdict of the trial/hearing make it an automatic assumption and multiply the punishment by 3 times (Treble!). Then you would have companies doing everything to not have whistle blowers die, not what we have today.
Or, short of that.. If you're whistleblowing on Boeing, you should go to Airbus and Lockheed and tell them, "it's in your best interest that I stay breathing".
It's absolutely not. They don't want whistleblowers.
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They do have an disincentive, its called decades in jail if its discovered you kill him.
Exactly this. In a fucked up way a rule like that would actually incentivise whistleblowers to become martyrs.
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Your competitors take out contract hits against your whistleblower and you need to have bodyguards to protect them.
And then your head of security and the whistleblower fall in love until at the end of the movie the competitor assassin gets into the court waiting room and the head of security throws themselves into the ninja star's way and dies in the whistleblower's arms as the ultimate sacrifice is made for love and corporate profits.
I tear up just thinking about it.
I see this as an absolute win. Also kinda liking the idea of big companies spending money in a spy vs spy sort of thing.
Bravo. Hope you make Hollywood kid, you got the vision we need.
The current vision in Hollywood is sequels, reboots and milking any IP for all its worth.
Don't underestimate the franchise potential of The Whistleblower Bodyguard 4: Furious at Fast Food.
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