Agreed. And frankly, people’s memories really are surprisingly short. (9/11, for example, was incredibly traumatic and understandably caused most people to stop flying altogether — for what turned out to be only a few months. Then they came back.)

Many passengers won’t be concerned about the Max on day one that it’s reintroduced. (I’d get on one happily.). Of those that are concerned, their fear will fade quickly. And like Aerobod said, many will be swayed by a nominal savings on a seat sale fare or will just stop paying attention to the aircraft type.

In my opinion, the Max will be the absolute safest plane out there once it’s back. It’s going through an absolutely incredible amount of scrutiny - more than any other aircraft. Every government regulator - along with Boeing - will do absolutely everything possible to ensure that the Max is as safe as possible. None of them will want to take any risk of another accident. It’ll have received vastly more safety scrutiny than any Airbus, any Embraer, or any other Boeing model ever has.