Originally Posted by
Interflug
So we stay at about 1 billion US $ for lost lives. Plus another 1-2 billion payments to customers for lost revenue due to the grounding.
Versus 600 billion US $ for Boeing's backlog for the 737 MAX?
I am in no way trying to defend Boeing here but pls don't mix up turnover and profit. The latter is somewhere between 6-10% of the former in real life and earned only over quite a number of years (bookkeeping tricks aside) where a lot can still happen.