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Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I missed the northern lights (except for a very weak version of it in LA) thanks to Boeing.
I tried to book flights to Seattle or Vancouver, but all flights were on Boeing.
Even worse, almost all of them were on 737 MAX or 737-900. Both have had all kinds of problems.
Fuck that shit.
There were a few 737-800 flights but they were way too expensive to be worth it. It's amazing how much cheaper flights are if they're on a 737-900 or 737 MAX. Supply/demand theory takes over, and it basically becomes a risk-your-life discount.
The right is claiming it's a DEI thing, but that's only partially true. The DEI stuff at Boeing is just a symptom of a greater problem there -- a large, longstanding company which became overly bureaucratic and thought they were too big to fail.
Whether they're murdering whistleblowers is up for debate, but it's not far fetched. Remember, eBay was recently found to have been guilty of terrorizing a Massachusetts couple from across the country (and even traveling there to physically stalk them) because they ran a lightly-viewed blog which was critical of the company. Imagine what a big corporation would do to a whisteblower who massively hurt them.