Japan probe finds miss-wiring of Boeing 787 battery:

They call it the “Dreamliner”; so far all it has been for the Boeing Company is a nightmare.

TOKYO (AP) — A probe into the overheating of a lithium ion battery in an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 found it was improperly wired, Japan’s Transport Ministry said Wednesday.

This is par for the course. There is a 10 cent part holding up a billion industry.

The program got on the drawing board in 2005  to build the behemoth aircraft with total price tag of 32 billion dollars. Each aircraft would cost between 206 million and 243 million. The aircraft that cost 243 million had the “wings included”.

Now ask yourself; why did the airline want to have a bigger plane built that has the capacity of carrying 290 passengers? Do some of you day dreamers think it was because the airline industry wanted to serve their customers better?  Think again. To put more seats in one vehicle at one time that will carry more people and generate more money.

Take a good look at how the amenities have declined in the past few years. They don’t care about the passengers; just their wallets. When did you ever think that peanuts would be the main course on a flight, if you are lucky and you had to pay to use a blanket or a pillow. I don’t even wash them after each use; that cost money you know.

It is estimated that there are approximately 49,000 flights a day around the world. The eventual ambition of the airliners (slightly hypothetical) is to have their entire fleet of planes as big as the  787 that can carry 290 passengers per flight. The fewer planes in the sky, the more people on each plane, the more money the industry makes.

A 787 carries 290 people – a 737 carries 189 people a sizable difference per flight.

The profit numbers are staggering when the math is done on less plane and more passengers per flight x 49,000 flight per day. There is no way the airline industry would spend 32 billion dollars if there wasn’t huge profits for them down the road.

That is all well and good but they have to make sure that the safety of their planes is 110%. That is a long way down. Fortunately each 787 that had a problem was able to make a safe landing, that is of it got off the ground. One airplane was docked in Japan when it caught on fire. At 37,000 feet it is no place for a weenie roast.

Enjoy the ride if it doesn’t have to make any emergency landing and hope if you are traveling with a baby you don’t sit next to a drunk that might slap your kid if they start crying.

It is getting rough up there

Man charged with slapping crying child on Delta flight:

I guess the “drunk punk” never heard of the saying “pick on someone your own size”.