I also know a couple of people that went to the dark side and said it was the biggest mistake of their career. I know you guys love it, and that's great. I don't like the complete lack of secondary inputs that the pilots brain is forced to do without. It's just not for me. I think it is an unsafe design. Sorry. nothing personal. I am really glad you guys like it. But mostly until you can figure a way to disable that damned idiot calling retard retard... I just can't.....







This.... probably.

this^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Boeing makes rockets and lots of military hardware. They either compete against Airbus or not. But using OUR taxpayer dollars to prop up Boeing and the ExIm bank to fund OUR competition is just plain wrong. And I don't believe BA is going out of business either, but if it comes down to them or us... I vote them.

Did they say why? I've flown em' both, generally prefer Boeing from a pilots perspective, but mission, lifestyle, and pay come first, and there is nothing on the Airbus I consider no-go. 330 flying is probably best in the airline if you like international.

But I like MD's too, so you know I'm a cheap date :cool:

Yet 4 out of 5 Delta pilots haven't even bothered to sign the call to action petition. Sadly most are oblivious and/or don't care.

On a side note, is it just me or does google chrome suck with deltanet / icrew. I get botted out and logged off almost every session.

A friend of mine recently flew from Singapore to Paris with Etihad. Economy seat. Two legs SIN to Dubai then on to Paris. One of those legs was on an A380. She kept telling me how much better the service, food, quality, leg room and price were for an economy seat. If these guys get their foot into the U.S. it's game over. They don't need a profit on their balance sheet.

Having been a LCA on both Boeing and Airbus, I have found that guy's/gal's prefer whichever one they first checked out on. By the way T, the retard call is a reminder not a command. If you Boeing guy's learn the auto throttle properly, you will never hear it. Go Wichita State, Oooops, they just lost. There goes my $billion

So basically, Boeing loves loves the EX-IM (they get 80% of the EX-IM money) because it helps them sell airplanes to foreign carriers cheaply, many of whom have no competition at home and are government "supported".

Delta and ALPA don't like the EX-IM because those cheap WB planes are then turned around and flown to the U.S. undercutting Delta's international service.

So we want more WB flying here but constantly have to give way to foreign carriers flying in 773s with "awesome service" for less, amirite?

Obama (years ago) called it corporate welfare, Rand Paul says "I don't think taxpayer-subsidized loans should go to profitable companies", Anderson doesn't like it, Moak says it harms U.S. airlines and their workers, Tsquare doesn't like it and FTB doesn't like it.

I mean Tsquare + FTB, get the hell out of the way people. http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/j/jarksaber.gif http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/j/jarksaber.gif

Now if Boeing is going to go out of the airline business over this, and RA is pushing for this to apply only to WBs btw, then Boeing truly is a ship without a rudder. But I'm open to hearing the other side of this.

Eithad doesn't have A380's.

If Boeing is going to go out of business because the EX-IM is not renewed, I still vote us. Boeing will be rescued and hopefully fixed.

Good catch. I just checked again and the airline was Qatar not Etihad.