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Government planning fails yet another time

• chulk90 10y ago
  Actually, it's the opposite, and there's more than the lazy "Government planning fails yet another time." I'm not sure whether you know much about the commercial airlines industry, but recent deregulation has sparked a huge increase in the # of low-cost airlines, resulting in a spreading out of passenger load across airlines. Therefore, there aren't as many passengers to carry per airline as before, and A380s and B747s are no longer needed. In fact, all U.S. airlines (Delta, United, American, and smaller ones) either sold or parked all of their jumbos. Downside: Because of the # of increase, air traffic has worsened (e.g. delays at airports) and pollution has increased very rapidly.
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• pjc50 10y ago
  Singapore is pretty much the success poster child for government-corporate central planning. Otherwise it would still be a fort on a rock.