United flight to San Francisco diverted after odor fills cabin

Fox Budiness ^ | 4.1.2024 | Landon Mion

[dfwgator]

[pierrem15]

United seems to have taken "cost cutting" to mean zero maintenance.

Our regulatory agencies, having been bought and paid for by the airlines, will continue to look the other way until a crash occurs. Then they will announce they are shocked!, shocked! to discover that maintenance was ignored.

[Uncle Miltie]

Must been the chalupa.

[Freee-dame]

Or too many DEI ( didn’t earn it ) hires.

[butlerweave]

DEI don’t do windows or empty toilets

[llevrok]

I’d rather take one of those Intercontinental railroads that Obama talked about.

Not to mention a train to Europe as AOC suggested a few years ago!

[GailA]

btt

[Bonemaker]

“United flight to San Francisco diverted after odor fills cabin..”

Democrats on board.

[wastedyears]

[Noumenon]

Back in my flying days, I might have drilled a few into the seat cushions.

[Delta 21]

This generation. IDKSMH

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I always wanted to take the train to Hawaii.

[libh8er]

Well, that would have been Germany's task wouldn't it?

It would if it were an emergency. Airlines typically get their non emergency work done at their own hubs where it costs less as opposed to paying a foreign contractor. Toilets don't suddenly break overnight especially on a plane that costs 100s of millions of dollars. SFO maintenance may have been aware of the problem and chose to defer it, or worse may not have caught it during scheduled inspection. Notice how most of United's problems of late involve flying in or out of SFO where their largest maintenance facility is located.

[NorthMountain]

following a maintenance issue

Maintenance.

MAINTENANCE.

MAINTENANCE

Maintenance is the AIRLINE'S responsibility, not the manufacturer.

[dforest]

Oh gross. Flying used to be so nice. Not anymore.

[Clay Moore]

Some more beans Mr Taggert?

[PAR35]

Obligatory ‘Another Boeing, of course’ so the Boeing social media team can be triggered.

[Robert DeLong]

Well, they definitely blew that one. The costs rose considerably by that decision. Do yo u know who makes that decision, the pilot?

[lgjhn23]

Maybe the PIAPS was onboard...LOL. /s

[libh8er]

Do yo u know who makes that decision, the pilot?

The captain has the overall authority for go/no-go but he may not have been aware of the problem. That's the responsibility of this group United Operations. I see they have a woman boss at the top, Maria Deacon, whose pronouns are "She/Her" something we wouldn't have guessed from her name Maria.