Boeing's problems has cost United $200M in Q1 2024

Just got cheap last-minute flights on a United 737-Max-9. The next cheapest flight was $3500 for a family of 4; this one was $1400. Sometimes it pays to risk your life on airplanes other people won&#x27;t fly on.<p>If you figure 200 people on the plane (it wasn&#x27;t full) and they each paid $500 less than market rates, that&#x27;s $100K that they lost on one flight alone.

I wonder what Airbus is doing to increase their production capacity. They&#x27;re basically leaving a <i>lot</i> of money on the table by not being able to fill orders faster. If they could somehow double their capacity overnight, they&#x27;d still immediately sell all those planes. Of course, building production capacity for complex aircraft isn&#x27;t trivial at all, but I never read about this in the news media, only about Boeing&#x27;s problems and the problems their customers are experiencing because they&#x27;re Boeing customers.

So poor management at Boeing leads to poor products. Products used by airlines. Products found to be defective. Defective products grounded or recalled.<p>Seems Boeing management needs to be sued to oblivion. Have Boeing executives force a sale of their collective stock, and that will cover United losses.

In a general sense, if a company sells another company a product, should the responsibility for the safety of the product rest with the manufacturer, the operator, or somewhere in between?