Counterpoint: Boeing clearly has cultural issues around safety and as consumers this is the only way to financially push back on the company. If Alaska and Un

Counterpoint: Boeing clearly has cultural issues around safety and as consumers this is the only way to financially push back on the company. If Alaska and United start feeling the pressure because people start to avoid flying on them entirely due to the MAX issues then that should be enough consumer leverage to affect Boeing and Boeing's behavior. I'm literally going to hop on a cross country Alaska MAX flight tomorrow (if the flight doesn't get cancelled) and I'm not much more worried about it than any other flight, but I'm tired of our country being run by MBA culture and having to make these kinds of risk-reward tradeoffs while considering that the management class of this country seems hell bent on turning us into a third world kleptocracy. We need to start punishing some of them for bad decisions. Otherwise they'll keep on gambling with our safety in favor of their profit margins and aviation may become a whole lot less safe. And in the process it might just improve the long-term outlook of their company. Boeing could decide to become an engineering-led culture again rather than a short-term-profits-led company which would be more sustainable.