737 Max 9 Dreamguppy
04-11-2018, 07:54 AM
#21
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2012
Position: 787
Posts: 3,137
Originally Posted by Itsajob
It’s just another automated push button jet that pays LNB. Do you really care if it’s not fun to fly? If they got a better deal on the max than they could the neo or if they can make more money with it, what we would like to fly doesn’t matter. Voting with your bid won’t matter either. He senior guys can bid what the want and the less desirable plane will still have a warm body in the seat. The company won’t know the difference, not will they care. Not trying to be sarcastic.
You may not be trying to be sarcastic but he was......
04-11-2018, 12:16 PM
#25
Don't say Guppy
Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: Guppy driver
Posts: 1,926
Originally Posted by deferredap
I assumed it was designed by a female engineer.
"I assumed it was designed by a human form that currently desires to be assigned the sexuality of what was known in the past as "female", even though we know that is an antiquated stereotype that has no place in this androgynous, and monogystic world currently run by the same WASPs that have always run the place."
Dean of Human Studies
Cal Berkeley
04-11-2018, 12:49 PM
#26
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 662
Originally Posted by CheapFlyer
Dreamguppy needs to be the "official" nickname for these aircraft at UAL. I hope the name sticks!
So perplexed that some people take offense to the guppy term. Ridiculous. Oh well, don’t care.
04-11-2018, 03:39 PM
#29
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Posts: 5,193
Originally Posted by blockplus
only amongst people that still call a 100ton airplane a guppy 😝
Originally Posted by Itsajob
It’s just another automated push button jet that pays LNB. Do you really care if it’s not fun to fly? If they got a better deal on the max than they could the neo or if they can make more money with it, what we would like to fly doesn’t matter. Voting with your bid won’t matter either. He senior guys can bid what the want and the less desirable plane will still have a warm body in the seat. The company won’t know the difference, not will they care. Not trying to be sarcastic.
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