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Old Aug 11, 2009 | 1:16 pm
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Originally Posted by martin33
Is it, then, an issue of trust? If so, then we ought to be asking: whom would one trust more, AA's vastly experienced fleet of in-house mechanics, or UA's (or others'?) mystery lots of outsourced someones?
+1

Originally Posted by zman
I would rather ride on an old Boeing/MD80 then a semi new Airbus
+1

This was a bad situation in which the staff and pilots responded excelptionally well under pressure. While this isn't exactly confidence building per se, it makes me want to stick with AA even more because this can happen on any plane, and any airline.
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