Boeing or Airbus?

[pavelump]

Which aircraft mfr. do you like to fly better? Or, which aircraft would you rather be a passenger on?

Personally, I like Boeing, but I really don't know why. Probably because they're in Chicago now and a U.S. company. Pretty retarded reason really. (meaning that my decision doesn't really have anything to do with the actual plane)

Dave

 

[pavelump]

ooops... I meant to put this in the general section.

 

[Goffer]

Whichever one gets me a job.

 

[JRSLim]

Boeing

I can answer the passenger part of this question:

For no 'good' reason, other than I like 'em and love their 'products.
And even with Boeing I've got my preferences. 747 all the way baby! I was talking to my instructor who told me that if I go to England I should go on a 777 -- telling me about all the neat features. I told her no way, gotta be a 747. And I would just as gladly take a -100 as a -400 at that.
Just my predjudice, no logic to it.
Other reasons I'm a Boeing fan:
The B-52 - 50 years and still bringing the oposition to the negotiating table. Power has never looked so Beeyoutiful
The B-17 and B-29 - Europe, Asia and the world thank you.
KC-135, C-135, VC-137, E-3, et all. 'nuff said.
The 707 which launched air tavel into the jet age, the quintessencial airliner.
The 747. Ahhhhhhh. of the pinacles of modern aviation. I can't get enough of looking at these planes.
And the line goes on and on.
Those are my reasons

Shaun

 

[typhoonpilot]

I've got to say Boeing, because McDonnell Douglas is now part of them. The MD-80 is a pure joy to fly as is the MD-90, especially the all glass version that Saudi Arabian has. They are both great airplanes for passengers as well, if you are sitting near the front anyway.

The 737 is okay, the 777 is awesome. I'm not yet rated on it, just going through a transition as I write this. What a machine though. A complete joy to fly.

I have to agree with JRSlim on the 747. It is a joy to ride in, the best in the air. The A-330 isn't bad where that is concerned, but I still have a problem with the lack of control the pilot has in the Airbus philosophy of design.

Typhoonpilot

 

[JRSLim]

Update -Boeing

Well, I now have the oportuinity to confirm my Boeing vote. Took a trip to Las Vegas last week - Frontier A-319 from Denver and a Boeing 737 back. The 737 didn't have the fancy real time map display and was a little (I stress just a little) more cramped, but it was an older plane and didn't make the strange noises the Airbus did. When the Airbus powered up before engine start (fuel pumps?), it sounded like a duck was being stepped on in the hold. Maybe it was the British and French parts having a quarrel!

The Airbus was nice, but I enjoyed the Boeing a bit more.

Yeah I'm predjudiced.

Shaun

 

[PennEagle]

Smike and Mirrors

I've got to say Boeing, because McDonnell Douglas is now part of them.

And there's me thinking all along that McDonald Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money.....

 

[CitationCapt]

Boeing hands down

Airbus= government subsidized. Next aircraft they design will have a glass wall behind the panel where a pilot attendant and his poodle will sit. There will be a crash axe available just in case the aircraft decides to crash rather than fly, just like the French do when confronted with war.

Boeing= American enginuity from airliners to bombers, and now fighters. Shame on those U.S. airline executives caving in to pie in the sky Airbus deals.

That's my opinion. Take it or leave it.

CC

 

[MvnAlumn]

Boeing vs Airbus --longevity

I've been hearing stories/rumors of minimal......
minimal Airbus corrosion proofing. Mx nightmares
in a few years.
I would venture to say we won't see nearly the
same percentage of recent 3 series Busses flying in
30-35 years as we do the 727's and 737 today.
They won't last.

Bill O>

 

[mobs]

I have to go with the Bus,although I loved the 727 and 767 the automation on the big Bus has them beat.

 

[TurboS7]

I guess Airtran like Airbus. Wait until summer when they are on approach in ATL and totally in St. Elmo's, then the airplane starts turning left instead of right. Why should we choose anything French right now anyway.

 

[Fly-By-Cable]

CitationCapt,

You watch too many news channels...who cares about the French and the war...Airbus makes better product at competitive price.
I've never flown Airbus and may soon have that opportunity, but from pilot stand point I know that Airbus is more automated and more pilot comfort oriented than Boeing. I fly Boeing's latest creation and I'm not impressed with their attention to detail and overall quality.
I'm an American consumer and I demand highest quality at competitive price. And that's why I drive Honda after having countless problems with Taurus and Dodge. If we can't create product that can compete with overseas companies then we need to improve it and not cry about US job loss. After all US Airlines that fly Airbus are looking for better deal so they can create more US jobs.

 

[Iceman21]

WOW 34 to 4 in favor of Boeing. That's the American way.

 

[dogg]

If it ain't BOEING I ain't going end of story. Besides, almost every airline that gets the airbus eventually goesout of business

 

[jdru25]

The 757 has my vote for passenger comfort and it is hands down the best looking airliner out there. Hopefully someday I'll have the chance to fly one.

 

[TurboS7]

All Airbus's and Airbus products should be banned from the American skies. You Airbus lovers can all move to France where they make love not war.

 

[JayDub]

I'd be happy to comply. Just one caveat; make sure all scabs go back to whatever rock they crawled out from under first.

JayDub

 

[metrodriver]

I like the airbus seats better. The A320 series is assembled in Germany out of parts from all over the world. Boeing is subsidized by the US government through militairy projects. And the 777? assembled in Seattle out of parts from all over the world. tail for example comes from Japan or korea.
Most Honda's and Toyota's qualify as an American car. More than 75% of the parts are US made and put together in the US, whereas most 'US' cars have lots of parts out of Mexico and Canada or are assembled there. It's just that the Japanese sense for quality makes a superior product. An American (GM) car is designed to fall apart after 100kmiles or 10 years

 

[chawbein]

Boeing is subsidized by the US government through militairy projects

That is because they make military products. The government gets something in return for their money. Airbus gives nothing in the form of a physical object back to their subsidizing govt's.

Airbus is nothing more than a big conglomerate operated by socialist governments. There is no incentive to create a lasting and quality product because they cannot go out of business, their socialist system will not allow them to. This is why you will see Boeing and McDonnell Douglas aircraft (I know they are the same company) operating much longer than their Airbus counterparts. Just look at the old Soviet system and the type of commercial aircraft they turned out (absolute crap), this is what Airbus is to a lesser extent.

Just my humble opinion.

 

[Fly-By-Cable]

Is't it funny that people who never flew Boeing vote for it, and majority of those people who did, vote for Airbus...