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The airline industry is already established and low margin so it's not an easy opportunity for disruption. Combine that with heavy regulation and needing tons a
by tdb7893 9y ago
The airline industry is already established and low margin so it's not an easy opportunity for disruption. Combine that with heavy regulation and needing tons and tons of very specific expertise and I doubt any VC would touch most of it with a 10 foot pole
- Symbiote 9y agoThe European industry was massively disrupted in the last decade or two by budget airlines. There's not only the western European companies, but even cheaper eastern ones like Wizz Air and AirBaltic.
- tdb7893 9y agoThat's true but it shows that the current industry already is driving down costs to rock bottom and is a bad target for the Silicon Valley style disruption, especially when existing players will just copy whatever you do
- throwaway91111 9y agoTSA would be the part to disrupt, and it's not like that was ever rational to begin with—people aren't likely to realize or admit it's mostly a scare tactic to fill jobs.
- tdb7893 9y agoBut as I mentioned, it's subject to heavy regulation and most of their job description in mandated by the government. Where the money is might be selling hardware to the TSA but that's probably a big risk
- throwaway91111 9y agoNo, i mean removing or gutting the TSA by removing the human part would help everyone (but TSA agents, of which I know a couple—just another instance of automating away painful inefficiency, unfortunately, as they agree they're not doing shit to actually stop people compared to the machines).
- tehwebguy 9y agoSelling machines to TSA is easy. You just have to be Homeland Securty Chief for a bit first.