Originally Posted by
mmsteidl
However, on an emotional and non-scientific basis it is striking that out of 9 flights now in a short period, 2 are canceled and 1 (2?) delayed due to mechanical problems. You must admit that these things add up to be annoying.
Btw, I am not concerned on my safety, I think that the incidents show that AA will not fly when they have any doubts on the security of a particular plane.
it's injudiciously employed words like
obsolete that biased your respondents towards the wary and suspicious.
fwiw, the A300's do, it was once reported here, have statistically lower dispatch reliability. 757's and MD80's, no. Even for the AB6's, it could be that's always been the case, even when those planes were relatively new.