caliboy93 wrote:What will possibly be some of the biggest, most notable shifts in society stemming from this outbreak?
We are going to have to change the law because before stock buy-backs (late 70's early 80's), corporate raiders would eat up companies that had too much cash. Buy the company, steal the cash, load it up with debt and then head for the next target. I think someone tried this against TWA. So stock bu...
Jump to postI agree with many posters in this thread. If AA is to accept any government subsidies, AA must: 1, Doug Parker and the previous senior management from HP and US must leave the company 2, Restricted salary and compensation for senior management 3, Be more customer friendly. Customer satisfaction mus...
Jump to postNo, I don't think anyone at the airlines or OEMs are secretly glad about Coronavirus and falling travel demand. Business executives universally prefer certainty over serendipity. Big over-performance or under-perfromance versus plan betrays the confidence that they are actually in control of the bus...
Jump to postWho are you going to believe? Forbes or your lying bank account?
Jump to postThe USG spends $4+TRILLION a year and puts its nose on every part of the economy. The money spent by all parties on the elections is trivial compared the what is controlled by winning That’s true but it’s also an indirect relationship. The quality of candidates for office is directly related to the...
Jump to postFor those saying a 787 update is premature, all past Boeing widebodies received a significant update to propulsion, aerodynamics, and structures after about 10 years of in-service experience, plus or minus a few years. GE and Rolls Royce were working on the GE90-115B and Trent 8105 just five years a...
Jump to postTWA772LR wrote:Its not a bad passenger aircraft, it just had bad timing.
Catherine Herridge at CBS reported that senior US government official confirmed the strike was in response to active threat to US interests in the region personally overseen by GEN Suleimani. Official made clear US prepared to take further action if diplomats, soldiers threatened by his replacement...
Jump to postSo it's an act of war, we agree then. Yes. Killing Qasem Soleimani was an act of war and not act of terrorism. President Trump used his lawful authority under the 2001 AUMF to order the strike in retaliation for the recent and imminent actions Qasem Soleimani against the United States. Iran can dec...
Jump to postWe killed a military officer who led state-sanctioned acts of warfare against our people. That ain't terrorism, pal. So it's an act of war, we agree then. Yes. Killing Qasem Soleimani was an act of war and not act of terrorism. President Trump used his lawful authority under the 2001 AUMF to order ...
Jump to postAgreed, in their twisted minds the US is always the bad guy, supporters of terrorism need to be appeased, maybe even try and give them money to change their ways. What is the difference between what you call terrorism, and what the US just did ? We killed a military officer who led state-sanctioned...
Jump to postUnless you live in Venezuela, then just about every other country is universally better off now than it was 10 years ago. The last decade has been miraculously good for mankind. Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya got worse over the past decade. Iraq is way better today than it was 10 years ago. I’ll gra...
Jump to postUnless you live in Venezuela, then just about every other country is universally better off now than it was 10 years ago. The last decade has been miraculously good for mankind.
Jump to postCEOs in Japan get 1/10th the pay the US does. Japan has a much more realistic view of what a CEO really is worth. Thinking a CEO is worth 400 times more valuable than other professional employees at the company is laughable, yet there will be many here slobbering all over themselves to defend such ...
Jump to postKFLLCFII wrote:I would not doubt that Boeing could be to 2020 what Lehman Brothers was to 2008.
It’s nauseating to see that Mullenberg will get an exit package of $26,500,000 with a total payout over the next few years of $58,500,000 !!! Just another perfect example of what is wrong with US corporate America. He received this payout because he quit, he wouldn’t have gotten it if they fired hi...
Jump to postReinhardt wrote:Unfettered / unregulated capitalism has just as many bad side affects as Socialism.
Austin is not managing development well. When I visited I saw few bike lanes and was shocked there was no rail option from the airport to the city. It felt very outdated in Austin. Houston and Dallas are not much better when it comes to roads and traffic though. Texas is not known for smart, green ...
Jump to postThere is not one US dollar in the whole Boeing operation that is not borrowed. If Boeing would own something, that is not bought with borrowed money, Boeing would be able to show some equity. Equity is the difference between what you own and what you owe. In the Q3 2019 10-Q report, the shareholder...
Jump to postMost people cannot seem to grasp that the deferred production cost is not a real "loss". One branch of Boeing owes another branch of Boeing the money. There is not one US dollar in the whole Boeing operation that is not borrowed. If Boeing would own something, that is not bought with borr...
Jump to postEvery 787 that Boeing delivers brings in considerably more money than it costs to build at this point. As long as that is the case that is money Boeing can work with. All the money spent developing it at this point is irrelevant; the only case in which it would matter is if Boeing had borrowed the ...
Jump to postFor me it's asking a single question. Did LH file or update the necessary paperwork with the FAA? To me this is a simple yes or no answer. Still, the FAA has some explaining to do. Why did the FAA fail to take so long in regulatory oversight and who within HQ or the local FDSO's caught the error or...
Jump to postAlso, is this the first time that wings being tested at ultimate load (1.5 times the limit load) has resulted in the rupture of the fuselage instead of the wings themselves? This is not the wing load test you are thinking of. Which test am I thinking of then? The test wing of the 777-200 failed at ...
Jump to postDid I forget any/did I make any mistakes? For starters, you are making a claim which you say is "strongly supported by data" without actually providing that data: I am trying to answer the question of how the introduction of the A321neo(X)LR is similar or not similar to the introduction o...
Jump to postCould the A380 be saved by Hydrogen? With or without hydrogen I don't think the A380 can be "saved" because most airlines do not require that much seating capacity. If you read the thread you would see I was proposing that the A380 was basically dead as we know it - the idea was to preser...
Jump to postCould they axe the MAN-IAH route and do IAH non-stop? Would IAH have the pax to stand on its own? Granted we don't know the yield, but most days the amount of pax making the full journey SIN-IAH barely get past 50? The majority of pax are either SIN-MAN-SIN and MAN-IAH-MAN. There's definitely deman...
Jump to postCan the A380 be saved by hydrogen? In the strongest terms: no. The modifications described above amount to an all-new airplane. So if you really want a hydrogen-fueled transport aircraft, just design it from scratch. That's to say nothing of the wild impracticality of hydrogen-fueled aircraft, but a...
Jump to postA special day in history, 9th of November 1989. Truly an end of an era. The end of half of the Europeans being prisoners in their own country. The beginning of optimism in the decennia that followed. The fall of the Berlin wall was easily a top moment of the twentieth century. It took visionary peo...
Jump to postAnd it does nothing to fix the real issue underlying the skyrocketing health care costs If anything, HDHP does offer a solution to skyrocketing health care costs. People are universally more price sensitive when they pay out-of-pocket. An HDHP creates good incentives for patients to act like respon...
Jump to postMy company will start offering a High Deductible Health Plan in 2020 paired with a HSA. It sounds good on paper: lower monthly premiums coupled with a tax-free savings account to pay for current and future medical expenses. But to me it feels more like “passing the buck”: you may save with one hand...
Jump to postThe media made him more than he was. They press was looking for a young, Kennedy looking type, made him the headline for a few news cycles then moved on to the next person. :checkmark: I will say his media treatment during 2020 wasn't nearly as favorable as his 2018 senate campaign. The latter coul...
Jump to post1.) If anyone says they have an easy solution to this problem, their wrong. 2.) Many solutions proposed do not consider - or trivialize - unintended impacts. It is possible to make the situation worse. 3.) Uber and Lyft largely serve to substitute for other personal vehicles - taxi, friend, family -...
Jump to postIndependent of what you think of his post, Houston is not even in the top 10 most educated metro areas in the US. Boston is number 7, so he’s not wrong. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/26/the-10-most-and-least-educated-cities-in-the-united-states.html More educated people, higher paying jobs = better ...
Jump to postAnother factor is that America has so many different kinds of places to visit where you dont need a passport and our highway systems are very expansive and well connected so they just take the family car and go to places like Colorado (snow/mountains/camping/weed), Florida or California (beaches), ...
Jump to postWouldn't doubt this at all. Of course would be mostly for political reasons. If AI really wanted to serve the Texas-India market, wouldn't they start DFW instead? Reminds me of the DAM-CCS route. I'm not sure why they would start DFW with no *A feed and (I believe) less demand to DEL. The Indian po...
Jump to postMight be provisions but I think there was an accident where a non-ejection crew was killed because he didn’t have a “way out”. The Brit bombers didn’t have ejection seats for the navs—bonkers IMO. If there’s one ejection seat, then everyone should have one. GF Perhaps with other bombers, but not a ...
Jump to postSorry, what a complete and utter bullocks. Have a look in China what they are doing. And for the developing countries, well if you don't have any fossil infrastructure, you are at an advantage, you can just directly move to renewable infrastructure. Just look at what has happened with telephones in...
Jump to postWN didn’t enter DIA until 2006 and only started growing significantly there within the last decade, but it is now on the verge of becoming their largest station, especially if they take all the new C gates. Conventional wisdom suggests a carrier won’t do as well when the carrier raids a rivals hub ...
Jump to postTraditional Demand Drivers Are Out. The key point is to understand that the new criteria for this expansion no longer gravitates around local population, but instead a range of economic dynamics. This includes the composition of the regional industrial base, the accessibility to a wide feed area (g...
Jump to postThis seems like a typical attempt at a class action lawsuit. I find it interesting they didn't add United (which also has 73Max equipment), and which also has bought Boeing over the years. Damages claimed and damages awarded are going to come out much later; the possibility is really that the lawye...
Jump to postSo the Global Hawk was shot down 21 miles from the Iranian coast, and closer to Iran than to any other country, is that right? Now let us suppose a $180 million Iranian Global Hawk, just 21 miles from Norfolk, Virgina. What does anyone think would happen to such a winged automat? So and you blame I...
Jump to postWell tell me what a high Mach number compressor is. There are no Mach numbers inside a compressor, only pressures. So where is this high Mach measured? Before the intake? At the face of the compressor? On the rotating blades of the compressor? A compressor is meant to compress air to higher pressur...
Jump to postIs Vox channel reliable enough regarding aviation issues? because a lot of news journalist aren’t despite working for important news channel. This :checkmark: There are some inaccuracies in their aviation content, but I'd argue it's better than a lot of traditional news, TV, internet or otherwise Y...
Jump to postI’ve read that the travel industry creates 4% of the world’s CO2 but 10% of be world’s gdp. Sounds pretty efficient to me. What is carbon intensive is construction and making concrete. Building the California HSR has released so much CO2, it would take decades to get to back through use of be train...
Jump to postI’ve read that the travel industry creates 4% of the world’s CO2 but 10% of be world’s gdp. Sounds pretty efficient to me. What is carbon intensive is construction and making concrete. Building the California HSR has released so much CO2, it would take decades to get to back through use of be train...
Jump to postFrom the moment IAH opened it has had an amazing number of foreign metal serve the airport. Short of JFK or LAX, I can’t think of another US airport that has attracted such foreign metal both big and small. I mean, with PIA, SAA, Gulf Air in the past to the current numerous ME airlines and their im...
Jump to postThe words " high-quality " " extremely low fare " " basic transportation " don't mix too well in the airline industry. It's either high quality or low fare and basic - he needs to decide which. No CEO is going to tell you, “ohhh our product is really shitty that genera...
Jump to postHaving read the Flightglobal item, we now know only slightly more than before. However, IMO the size of the debris field would seem to indicate that it was in one piece until impact. In that’s the case then where is the fuel. Very little fuel contamination reported on the ground. Oh come on, the pl...
Jump to postEither the US is planning a military intervention soon, or this is just bullying by the US, and hurts the FAA's credibility. Oh give me a break. The country is on the edge of civil war. This has nothing to do with an intervention. There is no hint of any danger to aviation, the FAA does this on Tru...
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