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DAMAGE CONTROL means protect the stock price, not the passengers.

Contrast "CEO says: Every plane is being completely inspected, every nut and bolt and nothing is more important to United than passenger safety and confidence."

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Surely stock price is directly linked to demand from airlines, and airlines are successful because of customer confidence, convenience, and price. If an airline bails on Boeing because customers refuse to fly Boeing fleets, then damage control/stock price is an abstraction of passenger's requirements.

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