Engineer Sam Salehpour calls on planemaker ahead of testimony before Senate homeland security committee
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Engineer Sam Salehpour calls on planemaker ahead of testimony before Senate homeland security committee
Archived version: https://archive.ph/vgS2s
After watching the documentary about Boeing’s South Carolina production site, no thanks. I do not want to fall from the sky like a bucket of juice. Airbus is more appealing to me.
Before all of the stuff I used to not pay any attention what planes were part of my route. Now it’s definitely a factor I consider.
I think airbus is going to own the market after this
No they cant manufacture fast enough and dont have the capacity, top it off covid lay waste to the industry
Do we have any sort of reassurance that airbus hasn’t also suffered an erosion of safety culture in favor of cost cutting and faster production?
Nope! But the other option is proven to be so, what choice do you really have if you want to fly?
Not American.
Being 25% government owned?
Airbus will share the market with Comac. Boeing will slowly sink into irrelevance.
Makes you wonder how many planes are in the sky with a door that has almost fallen off, but not quite yet.
If it’s Boeing I’m not going.
I’m surprised Embraer isn’t more popular.
Owned by BoeingNo it’s not. There was a deal in 2020 about a joint venture, but it failed. Brazilian government also has golden shares that give them veto power in certain circumstances.
True enough
Almost, but the deal failed thankfully!
It’s considered the 3rd biggest player in commercial plane market, but they are tiny in comparison. They have a lot of backend infrastructure built to keep operating, but they don’t have the capital to swing for new, risky designs. One miss and they are at bankruptcy level.
They also missed the mark with their latest Embraer 175-E2 design by not being able to keep the weight under the US scope clause, so they lost a huge market segment.
Even before all this I always used to prefer traveling through Embraer planes. I have an irrational fear of flying after an awful turbulence I’ve experienced.
There’s this air company in Brazil called Azul and their fleet is pretty much a mix of Embraer and Airbus.