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Are you referring to bailouts for airline operators or Boeing?
by _heimdall 1y ago
Are you referring to bailouts for airline operators or Boeing?
- brian_herman 1y agoBoth
- _heimdall 1y agoBoeing is, for better or worse, pretty critical to our military. I'm not sure why they'd consider any one airline company critical though.
- stackskipton 1y agoBecause most airlines have become monopolies at their respective hubs so their loss would severely inconvenience a ton of people so government is encouraged to prop them up. For example, if Delta went under, Atlanta, Detroit and Salt Lake City would lose a total of 50%+ of their flights. That would be absolutely devastating.
- _heimdall 1y agoDevastating to individuals sure. I hold a pretty high bar when it comes to something being truly critical enough for the government to bailout, economic concerns never meet that bar for me. If we allowed markets to become monopolized we have to deal with that when the bill comes due rather than kick the can down the road.
- SoftTalker 1y agoIf Delta went under another carrier would buy their planes and gate access at those airports, it might be chaotic for a short time but if there is enough demand to fly from point A to point B someone will provide the flights.
- JoshTriplett 1y agoIf Delta went under, one or more airlines would rapidly go "hey, there's a proven demand that's suddenly unmet", and there would very quickly be replacement flights.
- ghaff 1y agoWe can debate seat pitch I guess but economy seating hasn't been great for decades and something like United Polaris is better than Pan Am first class ever was even if food is arguably a downgrade.