Each jet is designed to its own specs, but they are usually retired based on flight hours, cycles, or years. Whichever limit is hit first.

I’ve seen other events where the pressure control door breaker was pulled for on-ground maintenance and somebody forgot to click it back on. It is almost certainly something that a maintainer screwed up and not a design or production problem. 

This story made the major networks due to the fact that passengers were found to have ruptured eardrums and bleeding from the nose, likely due to blown out restricted sinuses. They didn’t lead with Boeing. Apparently a similar failure, but without the damage, happens about a half-dozen times a year. 

I have the exact same feeling every time I go to the people-vet

Thats still only 20-25% of its US life as a jet. Sure, it has a lot of miles, but being able to pressurize is pretty important.

It’s real bad that I saw “January 2019" and thought “oh, this thing was brand spankin’ new.” When in fact it's probably got millions of miles on it.

Plane are not air tight like a balloon. Without the cabin pressurization bleed off the engines (or if someone left a window open), cabin pressure is going to drop as the plane climbs.

Creepy. I’ll be taking that same route at nearly the same time in a couple days. Hope it’s not the same plane.

Well he is!

yeah, the accounting dept looking at empty spaces is another huge factor. I think that in 15/20 years when the current 20 somethings start signing checks for ofc space we’ll see some change.

Yeah, the big issue is that we built the CITIES based on a captive work population. I was in IT and did the consulting on-site bs for many many years until the pandemic. When they pushed return, I quit and found a full time remote place and it was sooooo nice.   it was sorta funny and sad as the client we worked with…

Even their European brands are doing terribly. Maserati hasn’t made a desirable car since it revitalized the Gran Turismo and Quattroporte - the Ghibli and other recent models have been huge flops. I currently have a Tonale rental in Italy right now and while it handles better the more you push it, there is no way I…

My mechanic works on more Renegade/Compass/Patriot/Liberties than any other vehicles due to rats eating the wires. Apparently they use some sort of bio-plastic insulation that is extra tasty to Norway Rats. But we are semi-rural. Maybe not a problem in the big city.

One would think they’d have learned their lesson with the Gladiator, but the smarter people think they are, the more impervious to learning they tend to be...

Correct. And no Jeep even has the panache of an Escalade or even a Denali trim.

I’m going to guess the recent MBA grads thought they’d “cut costs” by eliminating the cheaper, volume sellers, and boost profits by building “high margin” stuff.

A U.S. CEO can certainly screw things up too, but I don’t think GM’s Carplay decision is even close to the existential problem facing Stellantis. 

Tavares is a bit of an idiot. He can concentrate on one market at a time, and primarily looks at the European market, ignoring most of the others. They’ve basically priced out most potential buyers in the US.

300, Charger, Challenger, all dead. Chrysler has 1 product (Pacifica around since 2016 with little changes). Dodge consists of the Hornet and the ancient Durango which will either go out of production or get replaced. The Ram no longer has a V8 (and a Hemi at that) and good luck trying to market to the same people…

Sure, 2 weeks abroad in 3 countries with a carry-on, and a wife.