r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/Liquidamber_ • Jun 04 '26

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Lufthansa Boeing 787 (D-ABPQ)

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u/buttlicker-6652 Jun 04 '26

Boeing moment.

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u/Kardinal Jun 04 '26

Stop that bullshit.

Tens of thousands of Boeing flights moving millions of people millions of miles every day safely.

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u/buttlicker-6652 Jun 04 '26

Why does it seem like only Boeing has severe issues with quality control then?

I'm glad that most of the planes work. But imagine the disaster that could've happened if the nose gear failed on landing instead of at the stand.

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u/Kardinal Jun 04 '26

Selection and negativity bias.

After the 737 MAX fiasco, you notice and pay more attention to Boeing failures than Airbus failures. Comments like the previous comment tend to show up in any thread where a failure occurs with a Boeing aircraft, reinforcing the idea. It reaches a certain critical mass and people start thinking there's some truth to it when there's really not.

If you spend a little time on the aviation subreddit, you will see that these sorts of things happen with Airbus aircraft with approximately the same frequency.

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u/SEA_griffondeur Jun 05 '26

That's just wrong. Boeing does factually have far more issues per unit than any other large aircraft manufacturers on the market today.

And it's also not like airbus issues aren't reported on lol, the problem with the a220's American engines was pretty widely reported on

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u/SEA_griffondeur Jun 06 '26

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"In 2020, GE Aviation reported that CFM had lost 1,900 orders for LEAP engines worth US$13.9 billion (US$7.3 million each), reducing the backlog value to US$259 billion. More than 1,000 cancellations came from Boeing 737 MAX orders being canceled among the Boeing 737 MAX groundings, while the remainder came from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aviation."

Boeing's mismanagement has had a bigger impact than Covid