Comment on Whistleblower urges Boeing to ground all 787 Dreamliners after safety warning
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months agoIt’s considered the 3rd biggest player in commercial plane market, but they are tiny in comparison. They have a lot of backend infrastructure built to keep operating, but they don’t have the capital to swing for new, risky designs. One miss and they are at bankruptcy level.
They also missed the mark with their latest Embraer 175-E2 design by not being able to keep the weight under the US scope clause, so they lost a huge market segment.
Templa@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Even before all this I always used to prefer traveling through Embraer planes. I have an irrational fear of flying after an awful turbulence I’ve experienced.
There’s this air company in Brazil called Azul and their fleet is pretty much a mix of Embraer and Airbus.