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Boeing’s problems were as bad as you thought (www.vox.com)

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Yeah. I love travelling and visiting new places, but the flight is the absolute worst part. There's absolutely zero comfort. It's inhumane.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Assuming what he's saying is true, I still keep coming back to this line:

“My boss said, ‘I would have killed someone who said what you said in the meeting.’”

How does someone say something like that? And how is this something that he's never been called out for?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Even this last line of the article is chilling:

“It really scares me, believe me,” Salehpour said of being a whistleblower and facing retaliation. “But I am at peace. If something happens to me, I am at peace, because I feel like, coming forward, I will be saving a lot of lives.”

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Totally unrelatedly a Boeing whistleblower “killed himself” not long ago.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago

He literally told a friend shortly before that, if anything happened, it wasn't suicide:

Speaking to ABC News 4 Jennifer, who didn't give a surname and was described by the network as a "close family friend" of Barnett, claimed he told her not to believe any reports of his suicide some time before his death.
She claimed he insisted "I ain't scared" before adding "but if anything happens to me it's not suicide."
https://www.newsweek.com/john-barnett-boeing-whistleblower-predicted-death-scandal-1879548

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago

And his best childhood friend said that he would never do it and warned her if something happens to him it was Boeing out for revenge.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

If it’s Boeing I’m not going.