• davel [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Boeing hasn’t been Boeing since it merged with McDonnell Douglas about 27 years ago.

      • iridaniotter [she/her, it/its]
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        5 months ago

        For commercial aviation, literally just Boeing. And then Europe has Airbus. The aviation industry really is a fantastic example of how capitalism works.

        • Rx_Hawk [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          Remember how they used to get full course meals in flights? Now we’re packed like sardines and we get a bag of peanuts and a coke.

          • iridaniotter [she/her, it/its]
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            5 months ago

            I'm not old enough to remember that. Weren't tickets much more expensive back then though? I was under impression that both prices and standards fell. Regardless, that's an airline carrier issue that has little to do with Boeing.

            • Rx_Hawk [he/him]
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              5 months ago

              This is more of a feels comment lol, I just looked into it and yeah tickets used to be about 10x as expensive

              • iridaniotter [she/her, it/its]
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                5 months ago

                So you can still get a really good experience now but yeah it's going to be 10x more expensive as well lol

      • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Be lucky you don’t live in communist china where Xi Jinping personally owns every company and dives into a large pool of money every morning