Originally Posted by
Tango and Cash
Once a fix is implemented, the certification authorities lift the grounding (I suspect in unison, at least the FAA won't be the first), and the first few flights are perfectly routine, the media will quickly lose interest, passengers will forget whether they're on a Boeing or an Airbus, and the whole thing will be forgotten by 99.9% of the traveling public.
Pretty much.
Nobody wanted to fly post 9/11 in Europe. Ryanair launched 1 penny / euro fares but they never caught on, oh wait they flew 140 million people last year.