Originally Posted by
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And assuming they can be trusted, rather than merely speaking to their bottom line.
They can be trusted to care about their bottom line, for sure. I don't think we can generalize to a massive PAX-life-is-irrelevant conspiracy.
There is enough competitiveness in the market that if Boeing, er, aggressively rounding in their favor, maintenance schedules then customers would stop buying them. Consider the E190 being retired well before EOL because of their operating costs. Widgets for a 777X they may have you by the short and curlys, but for a 737MAX, there is an "easily" fungible alternative.