Cynical?
Are you being cynical enough? Even the article headline neatly conflates refunds to Boeing's customers and compensation to relatives of the victims. 20% of the headline figure is going into the compensation fund. Less than a quarter. Most of it is refunds to Boeing's customers.
And if you want your cynicism levels to go off the charts, perhaps you should think about how much else is going to be paid into the compensation fund. More? Less? Absolutely sod-all?
But the victims were mostly foreign and poor. So airlines get the majority of the money.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
