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by tomp 2550 days ago
> There are enough businesses that happily create planes without putting profit before people.

Are there? Besides Boeing and Airbus, which other company makes safe (or not, in case of Boeing) passenger planes? AFAIK it's a duopoly.

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Embraer and Bombardier, possibly Sukhoi and Comac. But they don't make large, long range ones.
Does Sukhoi have a better safety record than Boeing?
Maybe there will be others that are happy to give it a go. Maybe it's best to have a monopoly, and forever get rid of rushing planes to market to beat the competition. Maybe in aviation, that would be a good thing, who knows.