Riiiiiiight. They’ll get bailed out at worst.

Every insider said this the last time they had issues with the Max 8. Now here we are again. It absolutely infuriates me. I work for a medical device company in procurement. I've had to deal with these asshats coming in and recommending outsourcing and screwing our local vendors to save a few bucks... Then, surprise! We get shit parts, and it costs us a ton of resources to fix the issue, but hey we're"saving money" right? Some companies shouldn't be publicly traded.

It's like the first scene in fight club, where he's talking about the insurance equation. That shaped my world view then. It's accurate.

Now if only cars had this kind of safety rating.

Worst decision Boeing could have made was buying Mcdonnel Douglass, who was doing poorly, and then letting the people in charge of Mcdonnel Douglass (who, did I mention was doing poorly) run Boeing

It's happened/happening to every major company ever.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but publicly traded companies will always make inferior products, because the incentive for a good product is always after profit.

To be fair the FAA didn't know they were unsafe. Now that they do know Boing wants to keep flying then until they figure out the fix and the FAA is saying no.

It's not like the front of the plane fell off, which is obviously not safe.

More like there's no needles in it... Used ones with HIV

It's because the 737 MAX went through significant changes and lobbies the FAA to avoid recertification.

Essentially we have a record which planes have gone through a rigorous certification process in their current configuration and which haven't because looking back it's plain as day.

The design of most planes has been checked properly because the FAA and Boeing have usually done their job properly. In the case of this change to the 737 they haven't.

I'd still recommend requesting a flight on another companies airplane when possible and never accepting a ticket on a 737 max even if it's allowed back in the air.

But there's no need to cause a mass grounding of safe aircraft that don't have any problems. That would be incredibly wasteful and more importantly bring older aircraft into service as an alternative. Older aircraft which would be less safe than the ones on the ground.

Because a large majority of commercial jets in the US are made by Boeing. And grounding more than half of the planes in the US would be terrible for the economy.

Also, different models have different designs, were designed at different times. Many of the planes are 'tried-and-true'.