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To me it says their lawyers don’t trust Boeing enough. My cynical side says companies never give a shit what their customers think in an industry like aviation
by distortionfield 3y ago
To me it says their lawyers don’t trust Boeing enough. My cynical side says companies never give a shit what their customers think in an industry like aviation where they have so few or no other real options.
- internetter 3y agoIf people don’t think planes are safe, they won’t fly on planes
- BurningFrog 3y agoThere are some people like that, sure. But most of us know driving isn't safe, and still do it daily.
- dessimus 3y agoMore people die in the US Every. Single. Day. on the roads than in the last decade in total from commercial flying, but sure flying is unsafe. https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-carriers/ https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-ca...
- dylan604 3y agoYou're using facts in an emotional argument. When the phrase "doesn't feel" is used, logic goes out the window. Have you not ever had an argument with a significant other?
- Zigurd 3y agoCommercial aviation is about 10X safer than driving per mile. That is a valid comparison if you need to cover a distance and have a choice of driving or flying. You should also add an amount of risk for driving to the airport. Flying is clearly safer than driving for long distances. It is less clear if the choice is driving to a beach two hours away or flying to a different beach two hours away by air.
- nottorp 3y agoWell, it's getting really scary if two* airline CEOs speak publicly against Boeing, no matter what their motivation is. * there's a piece of news about Southwest, i think, saying they'll start considering alternatives to Boeing.
- ethanbond 3y agoIt was United
- nottorp 3y agoSorry. Can't tell US airlines with no european presence (except transatlantic flights i guess, but i don't do those) apart.
- peblos 3y agoRyanair as well. Although they softened their statement, it still spoke to reduced confidence
- nunez 3y agoOh man, if Southwest defects from Boeing, Boeing is done for.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoAirlines need to push Boeing into chapter 11, acquire a controlling interest, and install adults in charge who can deliver.
- Arnt 3y agoA lot of HN commenters seem to think that people don't care about their customers' wellbeing. What an attitude. That's their attitude during working hours too? I just don't want to use code written by those HNers.
- ruined 3y agoyeah that's my attitude during working hours. maybe a person cares, but a corporation can't. i expect a corporation cares about making money, and to some extent that correlates with not killing me, but who knows. the code i write at work is open.
- Aaargh20318 3y ago> maybe a person cares, but a corporation can't A corporation is a legal fiction. It doesn't actually do anything, it doesn't make decisions. The people who work for the corporation do. Liability should not stop with the corporation but with the actual human beings making the decisions.
- ruined 3y agoa corporation doesn't do anything the same way a crowd in the street doesn't do anything. which is to say, watch out
- lupire 3y agoYou are not exhibiting nonlinear-systems thinking. A corporation is not purely hierarchical. Effects are very diffuse from decisions. Humans don't control things; humans interact with things.
- formerly_proven 3y agoProbably projection. Maybe also motivated by office jobs having tons of people freeloading and genuinely not giving a fuck, which just doesn't work in labor jobs.
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