Originally Posted by
AerialPerspective
True, I've been around the industry for a long time and have a very good memory for detail and a lot of AA's articles now have errors that any aviation enthusiast or long-termer would spot straight away. Like the rest of the media, they can't even show a pic of the correct aircraft half the time in their articles. I mean, if they're an AVIATION publication that specialises in Australian industry, it says something if they're writing an article about a 737 and can't even be bothered enough to show a pic of the aeroplane, instead any stock photo of an A380 or worse, a 767, will suffice.
Having said that, I emailed the Qantas Webmaster a few years back because they had a 737 labeled as a 767 on their 'images' section. It took 3-4 emails to explain to the drone at the other end what the difference was between a 737 and a 767.
Several years ago (pre-COVID) an internal document came out in Qantas that clarified to some of their non-operational staff that an A380 was that big aeroplane that had an upper deck going all the way back (so they didn’t confuse it with the still-operational 747s). So even people who actively work in aviation aren’t that cluey sometimes. Maybe those individuals were just there for the macrame classes and yoga sessions in The Street.