[WalterBright]

> Profit is the driving factor in their decision making.

No profit means no airplanes.

[argvargc]

Airplanes that kill everyone on them means no profit.

[voldacar]

Furthermore, airplanes that kill nobody are too heavy to fly. There is a kind of Laffer curve of aviation risk

[WalterBright]

That's right.

[edmundsauto]

Not really true - the USG will ensure the survival of these companies for strategic reasons, even if they always lost money.

[WalterBright]

Many airframe companies have gone bankrupt and no longer exist.

[edmundsauto]

True, but orthogonal and perhaps not as relevant in the modern era. Do you think the USG would let Boeing get into such a bad financial spot that Boeing would stop manufacturing planes? I don't.