So I'm curious - if Boeing keeps on churning out those planes, what if in the end they are never allowed to fly? Wouldn't Boeing be absolutely screwed?
they're already at work, trying to minimize damage from the lawsuits in Indonesia and Ethiopia. you might say it's just a form of corporate survival. sure, but what makes this decision any different from when they chose to hide MCAS from pilots? It's all about the money.
https://www.businessinsider.sg/boeing-737-max-cases-worthles...
I'm pretty sure that if the FAA were to, for some reason, decide no 737MAX can be flown ever again, literally every airline owning one would be suing them the same day and that would shatter any remaining faith in the FAA aroudn the world.
So, the planes will fly again and everyone will move on to solving the previous major safety issue in aviation: skills atrophy and automation dependence (which of course, contributed to the current issue).