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Lot of commentors missing the mark re: they need engineering leadership! A publicly traded company is a profit driven enterprise, maximizing profits is their first and last goal. Everything in-between that is called risk. Right now they'll be scrambling to hire the right PR teams and make those risks look less risky so the profit machine can go back to work.

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I guess I'm an outlier but every flight I've booked recently I have made sure it's an Airbus.

Let's see if the profit machine actually does get back to work longer term.

And that's the difference: engineers see risk and ask how do I make it less bad, MBAs see risk and ask how do I make it look less bad.

Making bad planes is terrible for PR and it's terrible for profits. You can have the most spineless, profit driven sociopath in the world at the helm of your organization but as long as they see problems as things to be solved, the problems will get fixed because it is the rational strategy. But if leadership does not consider the possibility that things could actually be better, they're going to be doing damage control until the end of time.

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