It's been close to 4 years since I've been on a plane and after 42 years and 39 countries, I have never seen an airport this jam packed. I heard after COVID it was even WORSE.
I'm sitting here surrounded by about 5000 people with no seats, no room at the bar, people tripping over each other and just a loud mess. Of course everyone rushing the gate to get on first.
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I canceled a trip that was scheduled on a Max 9 a month ago but they were also still grounded. But I'm on one tomorrow. And no, it wasn't just a complete one-off. They found multiple planes with the same issue albeit not having NO bolts. Just loose ones.
Alaska Airlines CEO says loose bolts found on 'many' planes
The CEO of Alaska Airlines has ripped Boeing in the wake of the recent near-disaster, revealing that loose bolts were found on “many” of the company's 737 MAX 9 planes. CEO Ben Minicucci said that a new in-house inspection of the Boeing model in the fleet has uncovered that “many” of the planes had loose bolts.
United Airlines has found loose door plug bolts on at least five of the Boeing 737 Max 9 planes, as airlines begin inspecting planes following the Federal Aviation Administration’s temporary grounding order.
The loose bolts were found during initial inspections of what is known as the “mid-cabin door plug” partway down the fuselage of the 737-9, according to maintenance logs viewed by Skift.
“LH Mid Cabin Emergency Exit Door Plug, Upper Forward Guide Fitting, Lower Attach Bolts (2 ea.) are loose,” reads one of the reports, which was dated January 8.
I do actively look for flights that are Airbus now, but it doesn't always work out. Their seats hurt my back but that's better than being blown out of an airplane.
They really should fix that stuff.
I specifically picked Airbus planes on my next flight. It's kind of hard to tell sometimes on the flight selector what's a Max Boeing versus a non-crashing Boeing.
I saw an article the other day that said that Boeing was well-run until they absorbed McDonnell Douglas and their poor culture, and it made me laugh sadly. My few years working at McDonnell Douglas were kind of shocking. I was on the military side and not the civilian side, but the level of competence and professionalism was shockingly low. It's hard to believe that they actually produced planes that got off the ground. Maybe it was just my department that was poorly run, because I was in a really tight silo, but ... jeez. It was bad. [Reply]
Went through Sky a few weeks ago. It was quick / efficient to get through security. Place was packed, but they had it going smoothly that Sunday. [Reply]
Remove the overhead bins all together or make them just big enough for a coat. Check it or suck it.
Problem solved.
Carry on has to be weighed at that air bridge to the door of the plane. Scale also is a trap door that flows down to the baggage handlers. Boarding pass is scanned, the carryon is weighed, if it is too heavy the trap door opens the carryon slides down to baggage handling immediately. If customer bitches, they are off the plane.
