Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight::Why are so many flights getting canceled or delayed? Blame a mysterious British supplier accused of falsified documents for plane components.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That’s freight rail. Freight rail is a full blown late-stage capitalist hellscape. Aging infrastructure that hasn’t seen maintenance since the New Deal, companies that refuse to update equipment because paying out lawsuits when it breaks is cheaper, overworked employees who aren’t even allowed to call out sick, etc…

        Compared to that, passenger rail is a fucking pipedream.

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          1 year ago

          But doesn’t Amtrak share the same rails with freight? Sure maybe the trains themselves are better maintained but if the rails themselves are in bad shape the train won’t get far.

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      1 year ago

      Perhaps, but you don’t have as far to fall.

      (e: oh, I mistook your comment for sarcasm. Ignore my reply; I agree.)