The Max is likely dead anyway and Boeing may end up bankrupt.
I guess designing and engineering anything is a compromise and a balance between conflicting things, but it sounds like the Max was too much of a compromise with bad results and nasty surprises.
You know the Government will never let that happen
Re: The Max is likely dead anyway and Boeing may end up bankrupt.
I strongly disagree.
The 737 MAX - after almost 500,000 flights - has a perfect safety record in North America, Europe, and wealthy Asian countries.
Boeing’s stock price - $332 ($187 billion market cap) - is currently higher than it was in January 2019.
Boeing’s bigger problem with this plane is the longer this drags on the more and more the public will lose confidence in the plane. If the flying public reject the plane...and actively book themselves around these planes as best they can... the entire plane will have to be scrapped and they will be forced to start over from the ground up.
Closing in on a year since this thing was grounded and certainly isn’t looking like it’s going to be back in the air soon