If you look at Septembers figures Airbus is ruling the roost by a long way on all fronts. Besides from the deliveries favoring Airbus 50/33 the telling number of 235/65 for new plane orders is nearly 4 times more placing Airbus firmly in the driving seat.
Quality Along With Safety Should Be What Drives Boeing
The Boeing cost cutting along with the brainless DEI hiring has hurt their business more than even they would have expected. Business should be run as a business with no room for a woke mindset or you will pay the price.
I think most people flying these days pay close attention to what aircraft are used by what company are and try to avoid certain models. My daughter booked our flights the other week and she must have missed the memo because we fly on a 737 800 which is a Boeing Max. Nothing happened obviously because I am still here, but thoughts do go through your head wondering whether Boeing really fixed the problems or is this a bad aid fix. Ryan Air use Boeing 737 800 (Max) and so do Flysafair because Ryan Air owns 40% of Flysafair.
This news alert caught my eye this evening and started to dig around to see what the alarm really was.
Boeing Another Horror Scare In October
There are some things you just cannot make up and Boeing seems to be trying so hard to create another crash is is more of a surprise we have not seen one this year.
The last big scare with this particular Boeing 737 Max model was earlier this month when the FAA set out an alert regarding faulty rudders. A Delta Airlie craft experienced difficulties back in February ad ore worrying was the response times take by the FAA. They were waiting on Boeing for a report that never arrived.
The FAA after following up themselves found that Delta had 9 Boeing 737 Max aircraft with a faulty component which was an extra feature they never even ordered. Boeing knew this and just kept quiet which makes you question what else are they not telling their customers.
Forget the 9 Delta aircraft that are now fixed but there are 271 more aircraft flying with the same faulty components in 40 countries still flying 6 months later. If that was not bad enough another 75 faulty components were sent out as spares so that number could be far higher.
Boeing's response to the FAA s that they are still busy investigating the February incident. The 9 Delta planes were meant for another operator and the faulty extra feature part was never removed. The faulty part has a rubber seal that was not sealing so if water froze inside it would hamper any rudder movement. Water freezes at roughly 10 000 Ft above sea level so these aircraft with faults if they had water within the seal would have encountered problems. I would say the 271 aircraft have been very lucky and been living a charmed life.
Boeing has had bad news followed by more bad news for as long as I can remember lately and his was a exercise of damage limitation by keeping quiet. The reality is how can airlines trust Boeing anymore if they do not have safety as their first priority. Any airline has to be thinking twice and then again when considering ordering a Boeing plane because there are risks attached. This never used to be the case and not surprisingly the new orders are dropping off at an alarming rate due to mistrust along with safety and quality issues.