single pilot bad weather flying with even minor malfunctions is beyond the capacity of any pilot concerned with any margin of safety. This suggestion is so stupid, foolish, ignorant, that it can only be made by a non-pilot accountant. Perhaps the stewardesses will be given flight training as a backup, kinda like AOPA once did- back up spouse training- for couples that flew together with only one of the partners being a licensed pilot. It did save a few lives and marriages. I need to see two pilots up front, both of them of legal age to purchase alchol, but not drinking it when they fly.

(Written on 22.05.2019)(Permalink)

airbus did not; design, test or conceive this majestic airliner, simply bought the company and slapped their name on it. Call it the Marvel of Montreal.......

(Written on 21.05.2019)(Permalink)

it took quite a while for somebody to come up with this most implausible "not our fault" silly saying. not believable, even a little bit.....

(Written on 21.05.2019)(Permalink)

with backlogs in the thousands, including 737max's, this little factoid is not so bad as at first glance. It is a blip unless the max goes far worse for far longer. Any orders taken now do not become deliveries for several years.

(Written on 20.05.2019)(Permalink)

keeping maintenance within the continental usa is preferable, even laudatory

(Written on 17.05.2019)(Permalink)

another piece of bad boeing behavior. Pilots in the end only want, and do demand a predictable, consistent performing machine, and efforts to stiffle that impulse reflect badly on the stiffilers. Those folks at boeing ought to be fired and replaced by folks with more helpful instincts. This includes executives, board memebers, and anybody senior enough to have hobbled the exposure and remediation of the boeing bucking bronco, the Max 737...and done publicly and labeled as such, otherwise more coverup and obfuscation, none of which boeing can further afford

(Written on 15.05.2019)(Permalink)

superficial reportage at best, not written by anybody who knows how to fly anything. unhelpful

(Written on 15.05.2019)(Permalink)

who benefits from getting point to point at these speeds? Very small numbers of very big people get the rewards, and i am not one of those...

(Written on 14.05.2019)(Permalink)

except for the old Lufthansas paint job i don't get all excited about airline exterior paint. Also the old Brannif flying colors was unique. I don't care about inflight personnel uniform changes, i care about seat confort, seat spacing, ontime flights, and that is about it. What does it matter what the heck the colors are?

(Written on 14.05.2019)(Permalink)

a simple traffic stop would have sufficed. Where was the clear thinking, the avoidence of possible violent public event.....???

(Written on 13.05.2019)(Permalink)