It seems kind of obviously foolish, like sure you can wind-down safety standards for profits, but in the long run making flying wildly recognized as unsafe woul

It seems kind of obviously foolish, like sure you can wind-down safety standards for profits, but in the long run making flying wildly recognized as unsafe would surely be so detrimental to profits of the entire industry. Except that they probably did the math and in many circumstances it's not like you can take the high-speed train instead anyhow. At the beginning of commercial air travel people needed to be convinced by extreme levels of safety standards, we are now in middle of the slow process of transitioning to a point where airplane crashes are as commonplace as car crashes. We see more fatalities and more near-misses in the last few years. It's not just Boeing it's the entire industry, everyone is forced to do the same or you'll be uncompetitive.