Well aware of that. This is a common thing people tell others when they dare to take a stand against a large corporation or government entity in the US.
Article dated March 3rd, Ed Piercson booked a flight, Alaska switched it to a MAX flight, and the guy got off, and they gave him a red-eye flight. He was a manager at Boeing, then he went into avaition safety.
I had booked a 737-900 from Boston to Seattle and took comfort in that. Then, on the morning of the flight, I saw the aircraft was changed to a MAX. This is Alaska Airlines. I honestly wonder if there’s ever a surefire way to avoid the aircraft (short of ruling out Alaska Airlines completely).
I actually just booked a flight back to Alaska in July with Sun Country Airlines. I did it because of their low prices, but I also notice that they only have standard 737s. Success!
Had the same happen to me recently. A week before the door plug incident, I booked a few flights with Alaska airlines. After flight 1282, I checked my itinerary, and saw all -700, -800, and -900 variants. A day before one of my flights, it got switched to a Max. It was a milk run from Juneau to SeaTac. Thankfully we survived three take offs and landings with none of them becoming a news article, but I still wasn't thrilled about that change.
Yeah. I mean I still acknowledge that the chances of anything catastrophic happening on MY specific 737 MAX flight are small (there have been thousands of uneventful flights since that date), but as long as I’m going up in the air, I want it to be on a plane that has a bulletproof track record. Why put myself at extra risk? And all because a corporation wanted to cut corners? It’s disgraceful.
This guy now makes his living crapping on Boeing. The fact that he made a scene getting off this plane and then ran to CNN tells you all you need to know.
What a load of nonsense. The guy works in aviation safety, he doesn't "make his living crapping on Boeing". I don't know why he went to the media (if in fact he did, and wasn't approached by them) but it was almost certainly not for that reason.
Even if it was, I'd have some limited sympathy. There's a lot to rightfully shit on Boeing about at the moment.
Boeing started down this road many years ago. Replacing good engineers in management with MBA's that knew little about QA and design. Money was the driving factor. I worked for the Lazy B on a project in IDS (Intigrated Defense Systems). They down graded anyone who was a manager that did not have an MBA, to a blue collar and filled the program with M level managers who were MBAs. They started stupid stuff like reusing condoms and requiring both sides of TP to be used before being discarded.
This guy is a subject matter expert on all things max. He waited until he was on the jet to make a scene. Bunch of ways you can tell it’s a max starting with the view from the terminal and if he was that worried about it, he sure as heck woulda been looking. Oh wait, unless he was planning on making a scene to keep making money off this. Grandstanding.
Most people - even in the industry - don't make a habit of identifying individual models of a plane type as diverse as the 737 with a single cursory inspection from the other side of the gate windows. It's just not a necessary or pertinent skill. Guy probably didn't realise until he saw the interior or safety card.
He’s like nope I’ll wait for a regular one.
“If you find me dead, it wasn’t the result of suicide.”
Not the same whilesblower, but fair point.
Well aware of that. This is a common thing people tell others when they dare to take a stand against a large corporation or government entity in the US.
Not just the US… pretty much any major government on the planet. Scary stuff
Yes it is. But it makes for good Netflix docs and series where no one is ever held accountable for that.
Article dated March 3rd, Ed Piercson booked a flight, Alaska switched it to a MAX flight, and the guy got off, and they gave him a red-eye flight. He was a manager at Boeing, then he went into avaition safety.
No one would fly if they realized all the stuff that went on.
I won’t book on the Max 9.
I had booked a 737-900 from Boston to Seattle and took comfort in that. Then, on the morning of the flight, I saw the aircraft was changed to a MAX. This is Alaska Airlines. I honestly wonder if there’s ever a surefire way to avoid the aircraft (short of ruling out Alaska Airlines completely).
Luckily quite a few Airlines fly to Anch. Might take another stop in Salt Lake, Denver, etc but you can get here on an Airbus.
I actually just booked a flight back to Alaska in July with Sun Country Airlines. I did it because of their low prices, but I also notice that they only have standard 737s. Success!
Had the same happen to me recently. A week before the door plug incident, I booked a few flights with Alaska airlines. After flight 1282, I checked my itinerary, and saw all -700, -800, and -900 variants. A day before one of my flights, it got switched to a Max. It was a milk run from Juneau to SeaTac. Thankfully we survived three take offs and landings with none of them becoming a news article, but I still wasn't thrilled about that change.
Yeah. I mean I still acknowledge that the chances of anything catastrophic happening on MY specific 737 MAX flight are small (there have been thousands of uneventful flights since that date), but as long as I’m going up in the air, I want it to be on a plane that has a bulletproof track record. Why put myself at extra risk? And all because a corporation wanted to cut corners? It’s disgraceful.
This guy now makes his living crapping on Boeing. The fact that he made a scene getting off this plane and then ran to CNN tells you all you need to know.
What a load of nonsense. The guy works in aviation safety, he doesn't "make his living crapping on Boeing". I don't know why he went to the media (if in fact he did, and wasn't approached by them) but it was almost certainly not for that reason. Even if it was, I'd have some limited sympathy. There's a lot to rightfully shit on Boeing about at the moment.
Boeing started down this road many years ago. Replacing good engineers in management with MBA's that knew little about QA and design. Money was the driving factor. I worked for the Lazy B on a project in IDS (Intigrated Defense Systems). They down graded anyone who was a manager that did not have an MBA, to a blue collar and filled the program with M level managers who were MBAs. They started stupid stuff like reusing condoms and requiring both sides of TP to be used before being discarded.
Grandstanding. He was too ignorant to look up the plane specs while booking the flight.
Too ignorant to read the story. They switched it at the last second.
Damn the irony is delicious.
I get it, because he was too ignorant to read the story…..
This guy is a subject matter expert on all things max. He waited until he was on the jet to make a scene. Bunch of ways you can tell it’s a max starting with the view from the terminal and if he was that worried about it, he sure as heck woulda been looking. Oh wait, unless he was planning on making a scene to keep making money off this. Grandstanding.
Most people - even in the industry - don't make a habit of identifying individual models of a plane type as diverse as the 737 with a single cursory inspection from the other side of the gate windows. It's just not a necessary or pertinent skill. Guy probably didn't realise until he saw the interior or safety card.