“From reading the comments on the mainstream media stories covering this issue, my sense is that a large percentage of pax don't have that faith. I'll be surprised if there isn't widespread reluctance to fly the MAX as SLF, when it returns to commercial service”
I’m former ATC and I can tell you that even before the MAX was grounded I had checked that my next flight was NOT a MAX, otherwise I would have cancelled it right away. This beeing said, I think that with time, assuming the MAX is allowed to fly again, fewer and fewer people will keep in mind that this version of the venerable 737 has gone a step too far and is probably the last “improved” version of this cable and pulleys dinausaur.
Yet, our last chance of pushing certification agencies to take their mission seriously is for the travellers to refuse to board a plane when they have good reasons to believe their safety was sacrified to better profit for the shareholders which is clearly the case here.
Vincent