What's up with Airbus?

[deSelys]

You beat me to it, Beet.

Maybe the windows update launched a reboot of the glass cockpit

About the dumb "I only fly X" stance, I'll take a well maintained Airbus from a safe US or european airline over a derelict Boeing from an african airline  any time... and vice versa.

[mora]

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by Yeager
Airbus benifits from being able to sell planes at a loss

What? Is this a whine on subsidies and tax breaks from the Land of the Free and Subsidised?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Wow that's reassuring, with China's great record of air safety and concern for human life.

Yeah that is exactly why they bought 100+ Boeings first.

[Staga]

Originally posted by beet1e
Sounds like the Airbus just needed rebooting!
 Why is it always the most fervent gun-loving neo-cons who repeat this mantra? What I want to know is how do you go about booking a flight with a guarantee that the aircraft will be a Boeing, when the major US airlines like American and United (plus a lot of the smaller ones) also operate Airbus, and even McDonnell Douglas? The MD80 is the backbone of AA, so would be pretty hard to avoid.

Of course they refuse to board to the plane if it's not Boeing

Oh... How many Boeings took their passengers to their last trip this year? And how many died in Airbusses?

[john9001]

when you book your flight, the web site tells you what aircraft you will be flying on, so you can pick what plane to fly on should you chose to.

[Staga]

Originally posted by Staga

Oh... How many Boeings took their passengers to their last trip this year? And how many died in Airbusses?

Guess I have to answer my own question

02.03.2005 Kam Air Boeing 737-242(A) 104 died
08.14.2005 Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S 121 died
08.23.2005 TANS Peru Boeing 737-244(Adv) 40 died
09.05.2005 Mandala Airlines Boeing 737-230(Adv) 101 died
10.23.2005 Bellview Airlines Boeing 737-2L9(Adv) 117 died

Source "Airdisaster.com"; not including few passengers who drowned into a river when they were evacuated from a Boeing which skidded off from the runway.

At this year nobody has died in crashing Airbus.

Yeah; just keep on repeating that idiotic mantra Ripsnort, it makes You look really bright guy  

[Golfer]

Can't a guy show pride in a company he works for?  At least I thought he worked for Boeing.

I rode on an NWA (Who got the bright idea to put a big NWA on the side of Northwest's airplanes anyway?  N***as with Attitude they must be) Airbus 319.  The only two thing I can say I really liked about the experience was the woman sitting next to me and the A/C system.  I wouldn't have ever been on this trip since it was for an interview with a MSP based airline and I had a nonrev ticket that I couldn't exchange.  It was August and I was wearing a suit after jumping through the hoops all morning at the interview so I was a good bit toasty.  Thanks for making a good A/C System.

I didn't have a view out the wing to verify what might have been what but there were several motors that were excessively loud in the cabin.  One for flaps, the landing gear and one more I couldn't figure out what the heck it ws.  A guess would've been elevator trim but I don't know for sure.  It came on in a longer spurt and then a couple short ones at the end like you might if you were fine tuning for takeoff setting.  Didn't hear it in flight or really pay attention since the woman mentioned above actually provided good conversation.

[Staga]

of course he can show his proud of the company and the products they're manufacturing but it won't make him look any wittier when the disaster numbers are what they are.

Of course any sane people understands that most of the disasters which happened were human related and not because of aircraft itself but why use brains when you can just repeat idiotic slogans and wave flags  

[Wolfala]

Not to bring up an obvious point, but has anyone even heard of those airlines?

[john9001]

i think some of them are finnish

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I think not.

[eagl]

Heh.  Sounds like the F-15E.

*blink* everything goes dark

*heard from the back seat* "dude, what did you do?"

*from the front seat* "Crap"

*from back seat*  "You got it?  Try a CC reset."

*from front seat, mumbled...* "CC MPDP AUI damned flashlight f**k"

*from the front seat, louder*  "Dude I've turned everything off and on again, and nothing works.  Think we should cycle the generators off?"

*From the back*  "Nooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!  Are the backups working?"

*From the front*  "Yea but they suck"

*From the back*  "deal with it and lets go home... Better tell lead" (or call the SOF if single-ship)

Sometimes there's a known problem, and it can't be fixed.  What, you gonna ground the entire fleet?  Bah!

[Yeager]

staga, that has mostly to do with the fact that Aibrus has manufactured only about %10 of the worlds flying commercial airline fleet and most of those planes are less than 10 years old.  Boeing has a thousands of older 737s out there. many older ones should have been retired but due to other countries failure to retire them, they get worn out and crash, or third world airlines have poorly trianed mechanics, and both.  Nice try but your boat dont float, and remember...Airbis is just copies of Boeing airframes.  Boeing wrote the book.

[eagl]

I thought Lockheed and Grumman wrote the book...  Boeing just made it weigh more.

Think about it...  Just saying "Boeing F-15E" or "Boeing JSF prototype" makes the plane automatically sound like it's gained about 50,000 lbs.  And did you see the Boeing JSF competitor?  2 words... slim fast.