They should have made the bit about Boeing instead.
The plane in the green screen backdrop at the terminal isn't even a 737. The side windows on the cockpit of a 737 are lower than the front, on an A320 they're in a straight line like in the skit. I'm pretty sure that's an A320.
Maybe the SNL lawyers were scared of getting sued and vetoed earlier scripts, or maybe they got paid off, or maybe my wife is right and I'm just a skeptic, but that seems suspicious.
Presumably they assumed no one would be paying all that much attention to stuff like an aircraft out a terminal window in the background, which looks nothing much like Boeing or Airbus and would not much surprise me to learn was produced by a diffusion model.
And I don’t see how lighting a fire under the wrong entity’s ass helps anyone other than Boeing.
Alaska has been lax in maintenance before (critically so, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261). If this pressure flows through to Boeing than so be it.
I do agree that it would have been better to skewer Boeing directly but I can see why they chose the path they did.
Yeah the fault is at Boeing but not like they do this kind of videos, or if they do most people wouldn't have seen them.