Here’s my current flying stack:
West coast regional: @flyjsx
Cross-country: @JetBlue
International: @FlySWISS, @lufthansa, @emirates (Airbus)
and if you have the capital, @NetJets have an impressive safety record spanning ~60 years
Look at how performative this image is. They don’t even care to tell their flyers how the accident happened. My guess? Total incompetence. They can’t say that their workers made lethal mistakes because their holy stock price would plummet faster than their planes…
In a perfect world, all of our transport would produce 0 pollution and would be as safe as possible.
Instead, we’ve allowed it to deeply affect ecosystems with emissions of toxins, and we all travel knowing that we could be part of the next “freak accident”.
This isn’t the world we were promised!
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When your pilots can’t control the aircraft they get paid to control…
You go down to land and 🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️WHOOOSH 💨💨🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️
Back up again.🫨🫨🫨🫨This would scare the heavens out of me.
We need to stand up to unsafe air travel. #BanPlanes#NoCrashLanding
I’m done with Boeing.
On my flight here the compartment behind me wouldn’t close.
On the flight back my seat was broken.
When I raised this the flight attendant was like “well if we bring this up we won’t be able to take off”.
Then we had a maintenance issue.
“There’s some rare red light on”
I overheard most of the maintenance conversation.
The plan was to solve it like an old person fixed a computer problem. Unplug it and plug it back in!
They did this 3x and then “they got enough voltage into it for the light to turn off.”
We’re very late at this point.
The fucking front wheel on this plane does not sound right.
Anyways, we take off.
Flight does not feel right. We go up and then down. Nothing too drastic.
Then the flight attendant gets on the phone for a long conversation.
Hmm.
Then eventually pilot comes on all serious “automation is broken, we can’t get altitude. We have to go back the airport we took off from. Don’t be alarmed by the emergency vehicles. This is normal for when the plane lands ‘heavy’”
We circle for a while and possibly dump some fuel into the ocean.
Thankfully we landed safely but what a shit show.
The seat and the luggage compartment seem like small issues but if they’re not doing maintenance and quality control on this stuff they’re missing big important stuff too.
This was a post merger Boeing. 737-800.
Tired of this.