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>Your life and health is dependent on some guy in a cockpit
Friend of mine works for Boeing
> he's on-call 24 hours at a time
> to anywhere on the planet
> to fix AOG (Boeing speak for Airplane On Ground)
> when a 777 / 737 / 787 has become a bus with wings and can't fly for some reason
> when his phone notifies him, he drops what he's doing and heads to SEA airport
> guaranteed best seat on next flight out, even if they have to bump somebody
> he gets to a middle east country
> 777 won't fly
> he helps fix
> Captain: "hey, while you're here..."
> friend: yeah?
> Captain: "this blinking red light, how do I fix it?"
> friend: "oh that's your whatever and it means . . ."
> Captain: "no, which breaker to I pull to make this light stop blinking?"
My friend has a list of airlines he won't fly
> any LCC (Low-Cost Carrier): Spirit, Frontier, Ryan, etc
> any airline in Africa
> any airline out of China, he's added Cathay to that list
> any airline out of India
"Really, it's easier to list who I will fly"
> mainline in US: AS, DL, UA, AA
> mainline in western Europe
> big 3 in middle east
> Qantas & Virgin in Oz
> Singapore
> mainline in Japan
> mainline in Taiwan