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Is there something just intrinsically unprofitable about air travel? Why do airlines continue to get shittier and shittier and strive for the bottom of the barr

• brikym 2y ago
  https://www.axios.com/2023/12/08/airline-mergers-us-airline-industry https://www.axios.com/2023/12/08/airline-mergers-us-airline-... It's probably due to the power balance. Corporate consolidation is at an all time high so what choice do you have when they all have the same shitty policies.
• Frost1x 2y ago
  As much as I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, I find it abused by corporate America and no longer do so. Any variation of Hanlon’s razor is assumed and abused strategically anymore. Perhaps there could be fundamental issues that explain away airline issues we see but I just assume it’s an industry that has successfully eroded consumer expectations and rights more than many. It’s not like it’s unique to the airline industry as a trend, it seems to be happening in every industry I interact with. You’re getting less for more and the experience is getting worse overall. Aside from some gains technology wise, people are clawing everywhere and consumers foot the bill with little option outside of simply not participating and using certain products or services. If it we’re so fundamentally shitty, we should overall reduce air travel and expectations around it that exist in business and culture, not continually prop it up by making the entire experience dreadful.