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The FAA grounding all planes Boeing planes (of this model) would be a more practical path to the same, executed through proxy collective action.
by ssivark 3y ago
The FAA grounding all planes Boeing planes (of this model) would be a more practical path to the same, executed through proxy collective action.
- xp84 3y agoI'm not sure I understand how that is meaningfully different from the scenario I played out though. There are a ton of 737 MAXes. Just grounding them all indefinitely? Iif they're just fundamentally unsound by design then there's no amount of reinspection that would fix that, so that does mean junking them all, with no replacements available for a decade, so the airlines are then left without the planes they need to operate their routes, meaning most domestic airlines just go bankrupt. I guess while the government is at it, they could mandate that Boeing refund all their money for those planes, which might save the airlines from bankruptcy, at the cost of Boeing itself going out of business, which thanks to being too big to fail (Nobody seriously would want Airbus to have a global monopoly on planes) would end up best-case as a GM situation where the government takes over ownership for a while. Still, for the next couple decades, air travel would just be much more expensive due to scarcity of available seats on most routes. There are basically zero good outcomes possible here, not with your plan, nor any other, to be honest.