One thing I've noticed about Boeing aircraft.. I have been in many, many airports in many different countries and noticed that they're everywhere. Big ones, not so big ones, the old and the new ones nicely coloured ones and the drab unwashed ones. It's no surprise that there are so many given that the major manufacturere are limited to Boeing and Airbus, most other competitors haven' t been able to withstand the costs of operating competitively and have, consequently, closed their doors.
It's almost impossible to avoid flying in a Boeing if you need to travel any distance within Australia, the only alternative is to use some other mode of transport to get to where-ever you need to go
Some time ago I found myself aboard an old, twin engined,737 owned by a company called Aerovista in the UAE, I remember this because it is the only time I have experienced anything that I considered, at the time, to be catastrophic. During the flight we ran into turbulence that made the old 737 bounce an buck like an enraged rodeo bull and I was sure that a wing, or even the complete tail section couldn't withstand the forces being applied and would soon break away from the old fuselage. This turbulence seemed to last for ages but really it was only for, maybe 60-90 secs,,certainly no more than 2 minutes, but it seemed like a lot longer than that. I'm sure that had the plane been something other than a Boeing things would have been a whole lot different.
I like Boeings. They have always delivered me to my destination. But not so a Puma helicopter - but that's another story.
