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From a customer perspective I would have appreciated a joint approach of the major aviation agencies. The way it is handled right now, I can’t judge whether the
by baxtr 8y ago
From a customer perspective I would have appreciated a joint approach of the major aviation agencies. The way it is handled right now, I can’t judge whether the EU is reacting shortsighted or if the US is too careless. One seems to be true?
- curiousgal 8y agoNone, US politicians are looking after their self-interest. Lobbying strikes again!
- caprese 8y agowell this would also mean EU authorities are looking after their self-interest too, even if that self-interest happens to mean that it more likely preserves lives.
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- chappi42 8y agoIt's easier for the EU, they don't have many MAX planes. It's likely too early to say something definitive and in times of social medial pressure one conformes if possible.
- isostatic 8y agoThe US doesn’t have many MAX planes either. Southwest have 35/755 planes American 22/956 Norwegian by comparison have 18/163 - a far higher proportion (of course Norwegian isn’t an EU airlin but they have EU subsidiaries included in that total)
- lagadu 8y agoNorwegian is technically an EU airline because despite the name they're also headquartered in EU countries. This is so because being EU-based they're free to use all EU airports to base flights out of, which they use to good extent to make flights between the US and the French Caribbean islands, something that would be impossible had they been solely HQd in Norway :) Check out this video about it (Norwegian starts at about 10 minutes in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thqbjA2DC-E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thqbjA2DC-E edit: turns out they're registed in several countries, not just Denmark.
- jobigoud 8y agoThere are only 350 of these planes in service. Or more precisely 348. Nobody has a lot of them.
- AsyncAwait 8y agoAs a customer, what stake do you personally have in this plane not being grounded? Isn't it always better to be cautious, like the EU/China seem to be?
- retzkek 8y agoYou mean, personal odds of being on a plane that crashes, vs having to deal with having flights cancelled, rescheduled, and the fallout of that (missed connections, meetings, ships, etc)? Even those who were not originally scheduled on 737MAX would be affected by that.