737 Max Scandal Cuts Boeing's Once Rock-Solid Image

They still have a near monopoly when it comes to production within the US, and that status continues to be propped up by the government. It still isnt clear that Boeing's negligence will hurt their shareholders as much as it should. It's looking unlikely that the criminals who forced through the dismantling of essential safety measures while concealing their actions from regulators and the public will face justice. Management has no incentive to do anything except stay the course.

This will have been the biggest, or at least the most visible, collective failure of aviation regulators in a very long time, if not ever, to provide checks on a company. So they are all pissed. And now that the FAA has fucked up other regulators are not keen to just blindly follow their guidance, particularly those in jurisdiction with existing or potential Boeing competitors.

"some hacker might mess up your credit report " vs "holy shit planes falling out of the sky".

In the US, the traditional solution to a nasty plane crash is to merge another airline just to get a new name (cf AirTran nee ValueJet 593)

And of course the opposite is what actually happened. There is probably a lesson in there...

When experienced pilots who knew all about the details crashed a simulator programmed with what was supposed to be the fix, that was the end of any credibility the current management could muster.